The Void. This is what comes to my mind when I participate to certain meetings where decisions about drug development approaches on the latest drug...CRISPR, biological, cutting edge drug needs to be taken. Emptiness. Tens of representatives of different departments around a table and strategies to be defined in order to reach crucial milestones and take the right action to make it happen, the latest breakthrough drug. In "Blue Culture" time, and before that, in times where "mediocrity" is more appreciated than "visionary leadership", what we ended up in is a TV show. A moderator, not a leader, asking around "any comments?", "what is your opinion?", "do you all agree?", "who wants to take care of this?". A talk show, not a development program, a collection of "point of views", not a vision and a direction. The licence to do the wrong thing in order to be "likable". The void of responsibility and, above all, of awareness and authority. Everyone having the same, equal right to say the correct or the wrong thing, to take the best or worst decision, to follow the flow and not to be contradicted, it would be unpolite after all, and nobody wants to look or be accused to be "red", there are more important things than taking the best decision for everyone, society and patients at the end, it is much more important to be considered agreable, to say everyone they are doing a great job, and after all, who is he, the TV moderator, to know what is right and what is wrong? He is not a Leader anymore, he arrived there because he was "nice", not because he was able to go in the right direction...he does not know...his only interest is to reach consensus on what template to use, to make sure everyone had its 2 min speaking-time and responsibilities were defined (...the wrong responsibility, who cares)..., that compliance is guaranteed, that everyone feels that their "expertise" is acknowledged, without a valuable input, without a meaningful opinion, just using "keywords" to move the conversation to the next speaker in the line...Is this the Truman show, or is this real? Because if it is real, it is a nightmare...