ACG Begin the Indicator

The meeting after the meeting.

It's where the real opinions surface. Where surface-level agreement becomes visible misalignment. Where strategy quietly dies.

It's why initiatives don't stick. Why your last all-hands produced agreement and not movement. Why capital gets deployed into work the firm isn't really behind.

The Indicator shows you where the meeting after the meeting has happened in your firm — and what it's really costing you.

Founded by a leader who spent 15+ years alongside the C-suites of McDonald's and Verizon.

The first move is diagnosis.

Most firms prescribe before they diagnose. They run an offsite. They hire a consultancy. They roll out a new operating model. None of it sticks, because the alignment problem underneath was never named.

The Executive Readiness Indicator is a free read on where your firm actually stands across five lenses. Submit it, and within two business days you receive your firm's readiness read — and an invitation to a debrief.

Not a survey. Not an assessment. The first move.

What becomes visible.

The Indicator surfaces five things most leadership teams don't see clearly. Each one is a place where strategy quietly dies — and where, once named, it can be fixed.

Culture
What becomes visible The gap between what your firm says it values and what actually gets rewarded. The behaviors quietly undermining your strategy get named.
Accountability
What becomes visible Where ownership actually sits when the meeting ends. Whether decisions have a name attached, or whether “everyone” was the answer — which is a different way of saying no one.
Resources
What becomes visible Whether your capacity, capital, and talent are pointed at the firm's stated priorities — or at the loudest ones.
Execution
What becomes visible What happens between decision and result. Whether your operating rhythm carries decisions into motion, or quietly absorbs them.
Strategy
What becomes visible Whether your firm is solving the right problem, or the most familiar one.
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