SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “Every board meeting feels like a deposition where the fraud gets exposed”, including the private rule underneath it: If the board has questions I cannot answer perfectly, the meeting is no longer oversight; it becomes the moment the gap in my competence is publicly named. I am allowed to belong only while I can keep every uncertainty hidden.
QUIET
“Every board meeting feels like a deposition where the fraud gets exposed” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “This is a review of the company, not a verdict on whether I belong here.”
PRESENT
“Every board meeting feels like a deposition where the fraud gets exposed” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “A hard question can be about risk, timing, or tradeoffs without meaning I've been exposed.”
ACTIVE
“Every board meeting feels like a deposition where the fraud gets exposed” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Take a blank sheet and draw a line down the middle. On the left, write three board questions that usually unsettle you. On the right, write one plain reason each question might be asked. Put the sheet away without showing anyone.
DOMINANT
Right now, “Every board meeting feels like a deposition where the fraud gets exposed” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Take a blank sheet and draw a line down the middle. On the left, write three board questions that usually unsettle you. On the right, write one plain reason each question might be asked. Put the sheet away without showing anyone.