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External pressure activates one force in the room more than any other — the Driver. Unchecked, that produces a specific failure pattern: the Speed Trap. Here's how to keep the Driver useful and stop velocity becoming the wrong direction.
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Every meeting has a chair. Most don't have a Decision Architect. The Architect designs the process, monitors the balance of the seven forces, names what the room has smoothed over, and protects the minority view.
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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.