You can go first or you can wait for everyone to like your idea. You cannot do both.
Every time you soften a decision because someone looked uncomfortable, you’re not leading. You’re leaking capacity. Your team doesn’t need to understand the full vision before you move. They need you to move with enough confidence that they want to follow.
The idea you’re holding back isn’t waiting for the right time. It’s waiting for you to stop needing permission.
What are you not launching because someone hasn’t agreed yet?
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I hope you can understand if you are a different thinker, if you are an outside of the box thinker, an unconventional leader, you’re doing this all the time, but when you go at it with resistance, meaning, oh, I don’t want conflict involved and I want everybody to like my idea, those two things actually cannot hold space at the same time.
That’s the reality of it. And so you are holding back your ideas. You’re holding back actually the business’s progress. When you think that these two things can be in the same space at the same time, they actually can’t. What can be in that space is. Great new ideas, things that need to happen. We are moving forward.
Yes, you haven’t seen them before. I get it makes you a little nervous. I get that you don’t know exactly how we’re gonna make all this happen. And trust me when I say that, we will. And part of how come we are going to is because you are part of my team and you help to make that happen.