Most organizations don’t suffer from a communication problem.
They suffer from a translation problem.
Leaders bury simple ideas under layers of buzzwords, frameworks, and “strategic alignment” theater.
Teams hear the noise, nod politely… and nothing actually changes.
The comic above says it all.
On the left:
Corporate-ese in full bloom. A leader rearranging vocabulary like furniture and insisting it’s strategy.
On the right: Bob.
Deadpan. Exhausted. Coffee cooling.
Not confused—just out of patience.
Because here’s the real truth:
Jargon doesn’t scale. Leadership does.
If your team can’t repeat the plan in plain English, they can’t execute it under pressure.
Clarity isn’t a “nice-to-have.”
It’s the dividing line between momentum and stall-out.
The more complex your environment, the more essential simplicity becomes.
Special operations lives by this.
High-performing organizations live or die by it.
When you strip the jargon away, you regain the only advantage that matters:
Direction people can actually use.
That’s what Rebel Leaders do.
The Clarity Fix: The Rule of Three
In Rebel Leaders GSD, Chapter 23 is all about using the Rule of Three—a cognitive cheat code for communication.
If you want your team to retain it, repeat it, and run with it, break it down into:
- Three priorities
- Three truths
- Three next steps
This is how you cut through noise.
This is how you build shared understanding.
This is how operators outperform talkers.
Why This Comic Matters
Bob isn’t reacting to one bad meeting.
He’s reacting to a culture that confuses vocabulary with value.
The organizations that win aren’t the ones with the fanciest language.
They’re the ones led by people who strip everything down to what matters, tell the truth plainly, and move.
Because leadership isn’t about sounding smart.
It’s about making others stronger.
Rebel Move
Before your next meeting, try this:
If the plan can’t survive clarity, it won’t survive reality.
Ditch the jargon.
Use the Rule of Three.
Give people direction they can actually execute.
This is how you build momentum when everything around you is chaos.
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