APX-IV-0079
“I made the bold call everyone hesitated on and it landed.”
The room wanted to wait, to commission another study, to stay safe in the gray twilight. You made the call. It worked. That courage is not recklessness — it's the willingness to dare a mighty thing and own the outcome. Don't let the win make you cautious. Make the next bold call too.
Your Practice
- Name the hesitation you overrode and why your read was right.
- Credit the team for executing — bold call, shared win.
- Resist becoming risk-averse now that you have something to lose.
- Identify the next call that needs daring, and prepare to make it.
The Architects
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Strenuous Life,' address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899