The strategy got a standing ovation at the townhall. Three months later the same teams are running the same routines, and the deck is in a folder nobody opens. The room said yes. The work never picked it up.
Approval and followership are not the same thing, and the critical gap sits between them. The answer to a stalled strategy is rarely more communication. It is to find where movement loses its capacity to continue, and build the one thing ownership is missing.
More meetings and more communication treat the symptom. This asks what the yes is actually waiting for.
Movement usually stops at one identifiable point, not everywhere at once.
You build one thing and read whether movement continued without being pushed.
Use it when: A strategy that was approved and slid back. A transformation that is busy and static. A project implemented but never adopted.