Leadership often involves stepping into uncertainty and making decisions without guarantees. Understanding how to balance risk and trust your ability to adapt is what allows long-term growth and success.

When pressure rises, the brain can treat uncertainty as danger, making it harder to think clearly or make good decisions. For leaders, learning to pause, question the panic and work back from the worst-case scenario can change everything.

Do you often say you make decisions from your gut? If so, that’s a problem. Your gut instinct is actually your subconscious mind making a series of interpretations based on your emotional baggage until it feels it has gathered enough evidence to label it as a feeling and create a chemical response - in your gut - Phew!. Hey presto! Based on that feeling, you make a decision. I want to say this has worked for me and I’ve led a faultless life, but unfortunately, it hasn’t...