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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 85 — a085

# Julia Dhar

**Profile.** Julia Dhar is a Senior Partner at [[entity-bcg-d7|Boston Consulting Group]] and a behavioral-science specialist frequently featured by HBR. She is the lead-listed author of *The False Alignment Trap* (HBR, July–August 2026).

**Role in the source.** Co-author and one of the three cited authorial voices behind the article's central thesis. As the behavioral-science voice on the team, her fingerprints are most visible on the psychological framing — the [[concept-false-consensus-effect|false consensus effect]], [[concept-affective-forecasting-error|affective forecasting error]], and the argument for **structured friction** over surface harmony.

**Attributed contributions to this vault.** The core argument distinguishing [[concept-false-alignment|false alignment]] from [[concept-true-agreement|true agreement]] ([[claim-alignment-vs-agreement]]); the [[claim-failure-rate-bcg|BCG >70% failure statistic]]; the [[framework-reaching-true-agreement|five-step process for reaching true agreement]]; and the contrarian stances that [[contrarian-alignment-is-bad|alignment is a trap]] and [[contrarian-unanimous-support-warning|early unanimity is a warning sign]].