A bee swarm won’t move until enough scouts back the same site. Big moves deserve more than one opinion.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

One scout can be confident and wrong, so the colony waits until several independent reports agree before committing everything to a new home. The waiting is not indecision, it is a way of filtering out a single enthusiastic mistake. Your own big decisions have the same failure mode, and usually the only scout you consult is yourself.

Before something large, get two or three views from people who are not talking to each other. If they converge, that is real support. If they disagree in different directions, the thing you were about to commit to probably needs another week.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose second opinion have you skipped on a big move?

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