A tense board meeting taught me that the right question does more to steady a room than any answer ever could. Most of us assume our job in a tense room is to have the answer ready before anyone else does — an assumption that gets tested the moment a meeting turns anxious and the room starts looking to us for a certainty we don't actually have. This week's Dispatch is about what happens in that gap, the space between not knowing and staying steady anyway. It's a look at what actually holds a room together when the plan isn't the thing that's missing.