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In 1938, George Marshall told FDR he was wrong about military aircraft, in a room set up for everyone to agree. Roosevelt made him Army Chief of Staff five months later. Honest counsel is a public good, and the leader is the one who builds the conditions for it.
Patience is accepting that we cannot see everything at once and acting on what we can see now. A 1528 expedition turning stirrups into nails is one picture of how the path becomes visible by being walked.
In Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, the Mercury astronauts argued with the engineers until they got a window, an attitude controller, and the ability to take over. Ownership is the crux of Execution.
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