RE+CALIBRATION™ SERIES · BOOK ONE

Is Your Organization Misaligned?

Identify leadership behaviors, cultural patterns, and organizational dynamics that may be quietly damaging trust, weakening culture, and affecting performance.

ORGANIZATIONAL MISALIGNMENT

Name What Is Happening Before Dysfunction Becomes Normal.

Explore the patterns organizations may tolerate, minimize, overlook, or normalize—and begin the process of Re+Calibration™.

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Organizational Misalignment: 155 Leadership Behaviors That Damage Trust, Culture, and Performance by Sarai Koo, Ph.D.
155 Leadership behaviors examined across organizational systems.
TRUST Recognize leadership patterns that can undermine credibility.
CULTURE Examine what organizations may normalize over time.
PERFORMANCE Explore how misalignment can affect people and systems.
WHY ORGANIZATIONAL MISALIGNMENT MATTERS

The Problem Is Not Always Where It Becomes Visible.

A workplace may look like it has a communication problem, morale problem, culture problem, or performance problem. But what people see on the surface may be the result of deeper leadership patterns that have gone unaddressed.

When unclear expectations, inconsistent decisions, poor accountability, broken trust, or harmful leadership behavior continue long enough, people can begin treating them as normal.

That is when organizational misalignment becomes harder to recognize—and harder to correct.

The first step is learning to see and name what is actually happening.

INSIDE ORGANIZATIONAL MISALIGNMENT

Five Ways Organizational Misalignment Takes Hold

The 155 leadership behaviors in the book are organized into five areas that show how harmful patterns can spread through leadership, communication, workplace culture, employee relationships, and organizational performance.

01

Accountability & Authority Breakdown

What happens when responsibility, authority, decision-making, and accountability stop working the way they should.

02

Communication Distortion

How unclear, inconsistent, delayed, or withheld information can damage trust and performance.

03

Culture & Belonging Failure

How people can lose trust, connection, inclusion, and a sense of belonging at work.

04

Suppression, Isolation & Sabotage

How employees may be silenced, excluded, undermined, or pushed to the margins.

05

Leadership Instability & Organizational Drift

How unchecked leadership behavior can weaken teams, culture, trust, and long-term performance.

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BOOK ONE
Organizational Misalignment book by Sarai Koo, Ph.D.

Organizational Misalignment

155 Leadership Behaviors That Damage Trust, Culture, and Performance

Learn to recognize leadership behaviors and workplace patterns that are often hard to explain while they are happening.

COMPANION GUIDE
Organizational Misalignment Reflection and Processing Guide

Reflection & Processing Guide

Questions for Processing, Healing, and Re+Calibration™

Go beyond recognition with guided questions designed to support reflection, understanding, and practical next steps.

RE+CALIBRATION™

Seeing the Problem Is the Beginning— Not the End.

Once a pattern is visible, leaders and organizations can begin asking better questions, understanding its impact, and deciding what needs to change.

01

Recognize

Notice behaviors and patterns that may have become accepted as normal.

02

Understand

Look at how those patterns affect people, trust, communication, culture, and performance.

03

Re+Calibration™

Begin making intentional changes that support clearer expectations, stronger accountability, healthier relationships, and better alignment.

WHO THIS WORK IS FOR

Different Roles. One Need for Clarity.

Organizational misalignment can be experienced differently depending on where you sit inside the system.

01

Employees

For people trying to understand experiences they may have struggled to name, explain, or make sense of.

02

Leaders & Supervisors

For leaders willing to examine how behavior, authority, communication, and decisions shape organizational culture.

03

HR & People Professionals

For professionals responsible for employee experience, culture, leadership development, and organizational health.

04

Organizational Decision-Makers

For executives and organizational leaders seeking language for diagnosing patterns affecting trust, culture, and performance.

A QUESTION WORTH ASKING

What Has Your Organization Normalized That You Would Never Intentionally Design Into Its Culture?

Organizational misalignment does not always announce itself as a crisis. It can develop gradually through leadership behavior, communication, decision-making, relationships, systems, expectations, and everyday organizational practices.

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Sarai Koo, Ph.D., organizational systems strategist, culture change leader, speaker and author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarai Koo, Ph.D.

Organizational Systems Strategist · Culture Change Leader

Dr. Sarai Koo is an organizational systems strategist, culture change leader, speaker, coach, and author whose work focuses on leadership, workplace culture, organizational behavior, and Re+Calibration™.

Her work helps people recognize patterns that can weaken trust, communication, accountability, employee experience, and organizational performance.

Through Re+Calibration™, she helps leaders and organizations move from recognizing what is wrong toward greater clarity, healthier leadership practices, stronger accountability, and better alignment.

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RECOGNITION · REFLECTION · RE+CALIBRATION™

You Cannot Address Misalignment Until You Can Recognize It.

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