Delivering hard results, especially when driving growth and innovation initiatives, is a game of statesmanship, influence, clarity, simplification, and prioritization while having high standards for the work and results, each having many types and levels of risks. The environment is typically not a “command and control” situation — many of the teams and capabilities don’t report to you and they have competing priorities. The environment is unpredictable — there are aspects of the innovation having feasibility, scaling, functional, or other types of risks. You have “dependencies”.