Leadership in a growing, evolving organisation is never clean. It’s messy.
You make decisions. You miss some. You act too fast on a few, too slow on others.

You try to do the right thing — and still, someone may step away.

That’s when leadership becomes real.
Not because you failed. But because you start to see things more clearly —
the weight of your decisions, the limitations of structure, the hidden costs of silence.

In those moments, you learn what most books don’t teach:
Leadership is not about keeping everyone.
It’s about holding the space long enough for clarity, courage, and better judgment to emerge.

Not perfect — but alive.
And sometimes, that’s enough to keep moving forward.