The Alignment Company

They didn't reply.
You sent a text. Normal text. Maybe a question, maybe a link.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

A few hours later you've decided they're mad at you.
By afternoon you're replaying that thing you said last week.
By nightfall, you've written a furious reply in your head thinking when would be the nest time to send it...

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. ✈️

Our minds do this constantly. Fill silence with stories. And the stories are almost always wrong.
Now imagine you're running a company. 50 people. All filling in the blanks. All day.
"Why wasn't 𝘐 in that meeting?" "Why did she say it like 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?" "Why didn't he reply to my Slack???"
Everyone is writing novels in their heads. None of them are accurate.
That's not a communication problem. That's a clarity vacuum.
And most people will fill it with whatever they're already afraid of.

You can pray people will understand OR you can be clear. Which is the better strategy?