"I don’t think you can be good at these jobs unless you’re willing to lose them. You have to get your mind at a stage in your life and career where the best move to make could put yourself in jeopardy to losing your job, but it’s the best move to make"Paul D. Ryan
In many respects Ryan's "put yourself out there" advice for successful senior leadership is a great discriminator between leadership and managership, and certainly is a "lean into it" risk attitude.
Who said compromise?
Possibly hidden behind the words, though Ryan didn't say it, is a willingness for pragmatic compromise that is not long-term in violation of principles. In other words: strategic consistency while also entertaining agile tactics.
We need managers also
But I'm the first to say it takes all kinds to make a project team, and everyone can't be on the edge, thereby putting stability, predictability, and reliability at stake, all the time, on everything.
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