Across organizations, leaders are asking teams to move faster, adapt sooner, and make decisions with less certainty. Yet many are seeing the opposite: hesitation, silence, delayed decisions, and cautious compliance. This is the Big Freeze, a pattern that emerges when pressure rises faster than the conditions that people need to act with confidence. The Big Freeze is an environment problem When teams stop acting, it’s easy to blame mindset. Leaders may assume people are disengaged, resistant, ...

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