By the time change is mandatory, it is already late. Most leaders I meet don't lack ideas. They lack a willingness to sit in the discomfort long enough for the idea to become a decision.
Early in my career I treated uncertainty like a problem to solve before acting. It took me years to see it was the condition I would always be acting in.
The teams that win are not the ones with the best forecast. They are the ones who move first, learn fastest, and are honest about what they got wrong.
Here is the practice I keep coming back to, and the three questions I ask every Monday before the week can ask anything of me.
First: what am I avoiding? The answer is almost always the most important thing on the list.
First: what am I avoiding? The answer is almost always the most important thing on the list.
Second: who needs to hear the truth from me this week, and have I made it safe for them to tell me theirs?
Third: what would I do if I trusted my own judgement? Then do the smallest version of that before Friday.
None of this is complicated. All of it is hard. That is the job.
Own the journey. Nobody else is going to.