· 5 min read
AI in the decision room is neither a member nor a tool — it's a new kind of participant that modulates the seven forces. Where to put it, what to ask of it, and where it actively suppresses the Challenger.
· 4 min read
Every group decision activates the same seven forces — Driver, Challenger, Integrator, Executor, Systems Thinker, Constraint Holder, Boundary Breaker. They are not roles. They are not personalities. Once you can see them, the room becomes legible.
· 5 min read
It isn't intelligence that fails. It's the force imbalance the room produces when one of the seven forces — usually the Challenger — gets quietly suppressed. The pattern has a name: the Blind Spot Cascade.