If nobody ever pushes back on you, you’re not a great leader. You’re in an echo chamber with good lighting.

Agreement feels like evidence that you are right, and it is usually evidence about something else: that disagreeing with you has become expensive. People learn quickly whether a question gets welcomed or punished, and once they have learned, they stop telling you things. The room goes quiet and you mistake the quiet for consensus.

Count how many times in the last month someone told you that you were wrong. If the number is zero, ask one person directly what you are getting wrong, then thank them without defending yourself. Do that twice and the flow starts again.