Allowing Uncertainty

Uncertainty is a certainty in every meaningful endeavor. Strategies shift, markets change, relationships evolve, and outcomes remain unpredictable. Good leadership embraces this backdrop and allows it to unfold.

Attempts to reduce uncertainty through heavy forecasting, rigid planning, or tight control often bring only temporary comfort. The more essential work is developing a posture of openness and accepting where the Universal Flow wants to go.

Attention moves from explaining or eliminating risk to assessing the present moment. What information is available? What actions make sense now? By holding ambiguity without rushing to closure, leaders leave space for new insight and more adaptive responses.

The discipline lies in not resisting uncertainty, because control is an illusion anyway. What begins as discomfort often reveals itself as the source of innovation, clarity, and growth.

Until next time, Sherif