Most people see the next week. Leaders get paid, in trust, for seeing the next season.

Almost everyone can manage what is directly in front of them. Rarer is holding a picture of where all of this is going and letting that shape today’s small decisions. People feel the difference even when they cannot name it, and they relax around someone who seems to know what comes after this. That relief is what they give you credit for.

Spend twenty minutes this week thinking past the current deadline. Ask what your group will need in three months that nobody has started on. Then do one small piece of it now, while there is no pressure and no audience.