We have treated truth like a scavenger hunt. If we hold enough listening sessions, buy another survey, or hire one more expert, truth will reveal itself like a prize under the last box. Meanwhile, decisions stall, harm compounds, and the most honest voices in the room learn—again—that silence is safer than clarity. The Verbal TRUTH begins with a different claim: truth is not an object to discover; it is a discipline to enact. It becomes real when leaders say it precisely an