People become leaders by first becoming effective managers. They create cohesion and consensus among their team. They maintain an atmosphere of predictability so everybody knows what to expect and focus on executing a plan with excellence. That’s how you consistently deliver value to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.

Yet when you are pursuing change, none of those things will help you. When something is new, untried, and untested, you can’t expect an immediate consensus to form around it. You can’t expect predictability either, but need to embrace uncertainty. Instead of focusing on execution, you need to explore and find new answers through some trial and error.

That’s one of the things that makes transformation so hard for so many leaders. You need to mode shift away from wh

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