India, July 18 -- Every cricket fan knows the feeling. The ball-tracking graphic comes up on the big screen, and for half a second, everyone in the stadium treats it like gospel. It isn't. It's a projection. It's an educated guess rendered beautifully enough to look like a fact. Cricket knew this before anyone else did, which is why it built a rule for the doubt. The umpire's call. When the ball only grazes the stumps, the technology steps back, and the human decision on the field stands. The umpire's name goes into the scorecard. Not the machine's.

I think about this rule a lot in boardrooms, because we've enthusiastically adopted the projection and quietly dropped the doubt.

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