Leading isn’t standing in front. It’s making sure the line actually moves.

Position and function are not the same thing. Being at the front is a location, and plenty of people occupy it while the group behind them goes nowhere. The actual job is motion: finding the stuck point, unsticking it, then finding the next one. That work is often invisible and almost never happens at the front.

This week, instead of asking whether you are leading, ask whether the thing moved. If it did not, find the exact place it stopped: a decision nobody made, a person waiting on a reply, a missing key. Fix that one point, because progress is a better scoreboard than visibility.