I am Michael. I work with people who lead teams they did not build, through changes they did not choose, on information that will never be complete. That is not a difficult version of leadership. That is leadership.

The recurring questions are practical. How do you build trust with people you rarely see in person? Which meetings actually earn their place? What do you do in the first weeks with a team that already has its own history and no reason yet to trust you? And how much of what gets sold as mindset research actually holds up — because a fair amount of it does not.

I am sceptical by default and I say so. I would rather give you a defensible reason for a decision than a comfortable framework for it.