With What We Have.

We do what we can with what we have.

The first job of a leader is to Define Reality.

To do a stocktake of what she has - including in her people.

The leader must get to know the competence and capacity of each person she intends to take where they otherwise will not go. She must spend time with them seeing them in action. She cannot rely on what her predecessor may have told her. She must identify any constraints on them she must remove to liberate them to achieve a potential that even they may not know they have.

Then she must get out of the way.

Only stepping in to repeat the above to identify how each person has grown.