The presidents of P&G’s businesses and their teams trooped in before the company’s most senior executives with bulletproof Power-Point presentations. The presenters naturally wanted to show their results, defend their decisions, and get out of the room as rapidly as possible. They didn’t welcome critical probing of the logic of their choices. When senior leadership felt that resistance, they either kept their reservations private or piled on with attacks in which case the presenting team had no choice but to take the criticism and then slink out, proverbial tails between their legs.