My Integrator has developed a habit of saying yes to all of my wild Visionary ideas without filtering them, which has made the rest of our leadership team lose respect for the seat and view them as a rubber stamp. How do we restore the proper balance of power and boundaries between us?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A yes-man Integrator is a major liability that will quickly derail your company. The entire purpose of the Integrator seat is to act as a filter for the Visionary's ideas, protecting the organization from distraction and ensuring execution discipline. If they are rubber-stamping your ideas, they are failing to fulfill their primary role on the Accountability Chart. To fix this, you must first look in the mirror. Have you been using your dominant personality to run over your Integrator, or have you failed to give them the authority to say no? You must explicitly give them permission to push back. Schedule an urgent Same Page meeting to realign your partnership. Revisit Our Charter, focusing on the Trust and Same Page pillars. Agree on a clear process for filtering your ideas. Moving forward, you must not share your wild, spontaneous ideas directly with the rest of the leadership team or the staff. Instead, document your ideas and bring them exclusively to your weekly Same Page meeting with the Integrator. During this meeting, your Integrator must evaluate each idea against your Core Focus and your V/TO®. They must feel fully empowered to say no to projects that distract from your current Rocks or your 1-Year Plan. Once you agree on which ideas are worth pursuing, you must present a unified front to the leadership team. When the team sees the Integrator actively challenging your ideas in private and executing a focused plan in public, they will regain respect for the seat, restoring the essential balance of power at the top.