Q2 just ended. You're officially halfway through 2026.

When you set this year's goals in January, was your leadership team actually 100% bought in?

Uncomfortable question for owners of $5M-$100M companies: when you set this year's goals in January, was your leadership team actually 100% bought in? Or did everyone nod in the room and go back to running their department their own way?

Six months of hindsight tells the truth. If you're off track, "we got busy" isn't the answer — it's hiding the real one. Usually it's one of three things:

1. The goal was wrong from the start.
2. The goal was right, but ownership was never clear.
3. The goal was right and owned, but nobody's held the team accountable since the kickoff meeting. Including you.

That third one is the one most owners avoid looking at. Easier to blame the market or the quarter than to ask: have I actually addressed this with my team, by name, with a deadline? Or did I just notice it and hope it'd self-correct?

If you've got a real leadership team — not people wearing leadership titles while doing four other jobs — this is the moment to use them. Get in a room. Look at the numbers against the goals. Ask everyone individually: do you still believe in this goal, and are you still bought in on hitting it? Then decide together: adjust it, or recommit to it. Don't let it drift through Q3 unaddressed.

Have you had that conversation yet?