If what you’re postponing is part of what’s making today so difficult, waiting for things to calm down won’t solve it.

The organisation may not be short of difficult conversations. It may be having them in all the wrong places.

You can be making completely rational decisions from a picture that isn’t quite real.

If you’ve been fixing execution for years and execution still appears to be broken, maybe execution isn’t the problem.

“We’re different” may be completely true. The danger begins when it becomes an explanation for results your own system is helping to produce.