Your Team Already Knows Which Rules Don't Matter

Leaders Leading Leaders · Aug 12, 2026 · 11m

Nobody wakes up and decides to lower their standards. You make twelve reasonable exceptions over eighteen months — and one day you look up at a team you don't recognize, wondering when everyone stopped caring.They didn't stop caring. They believed you.In this episode, John Espinosa breaks down standards drift: how a rule dies without ever being broken, why every exception you made was defensible, and the three moves that catch it while it's still cheap to fix.You'll learn THE DRIFT LINE:1. Find the First Exception — the date your standard actually changed2. Say It Out Loud. Once. — the exact…