What It Will Look Like.

Every leader carries a picture of their finest hour. In it, they are a warrior in the arena - moving deftly and powerfully, fending off the short jabs and the thrust from the blindside, the long arc of the javelin thrown. The crowd roars. They leave victorious. History will regale the brilliance and cunning. It will be glorious.

That is the imagined version. What it will actually look like, when the decisive moment arrives, is rarely the arena of the daydream - which is exactly why the work is to prepare for the real moment, not the glorious one.