Helping leaders balance patience with discipline by linking small steps to big goals.

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To ensure progress is sustained and aligned with long-term impact rather than short-term activity.

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Action Steps	Key Questions	Practice
Clarify your long game.	What do you want to be true in three years because of your leadership?	Ask the leader to write a paragraph describing this vision and identify one daily habit that contributes to it.
Identify bamboo projects.	What slow-growing initiatives need persistence?	Practise explaining a long-term project to your team in a way that builds patience and belief.
Translate vision into steps.	What’s the smallest meaningful action you can take this week?	Ask the leader to write one visible daily action for a long-term goal and track it for a month.
Communicate progress.	How can you keep belief alive during slow growth?	Practise updating the team on progress using both data and narrative.

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