Look like a Saruman outside the team.

Look like a Saruman outside the team. Be a Radagast inside the team.

Inside the team be very authentic and candid.

Outside the team look very traditional and heroic.

The internals of a team is about ground truth, disconfirming evidence. The external of a team is about posturing, kayfabe, perception.

Who can you let inside? How can you make that as large as possible?

When a lead describes the hesitations of their actual decision to the team, it invites the team to see it as a fluid thing that can change, not a final, "this has been decided and now it's over".

It allows more disconfirming evidence to be shared.

It also invites co-creation of the decision, co-ownership, creating engagement.