Adjusting Without Abandoning
Most important decisions are made before every answer is available.
Questions remain.
New information arrives.
Circumstances continue to unfold.
Plans change.
Timelines extend.
A situation reveals itself to be larger than it first appeared.
A responsibility expands beyond its original edges.
Leadership is not defined by what changes.
It is revealed by what remains steady while change is taking place.
Some things adjust:
Schedules.
Approaches.
Expectations.
Timelines.
Some things ask to remain steady:
Purpose.
Responsibility.
The reason the work continues.
It can be found in decisions made with incomplete information, in the willingness to revise an approach without releasing the responsibility beneath it, and in continuing the work even when it no longer looks the way it did when it began.
Beware
Beware the assumption that revising the plan means releasing the purpose.
A changed route does not mean a changed direction.
Continue Exploring
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