You want to get it right. Of course you do. You care about quality. You hold the standard. You have earned your credibility by being the one who knows. But there is a quiet cost to always needing to be right. Especially when no one around you is moving.Expert defenders often wear this need like a badge.The logic is sharp. The insights are defensible. The systems are sound. And yet. The ship stays docked. In the infinite feed, where options never end, the temptation is to scroll for the better answer. The cleaner model. The smarter play. It is disguised as diligence. But it is often just avoidance.

The search for the right answer becomes a holding pattern.You hover. You hesitate. You polish the brief while others test the market. And when someone finally makes a move, you are ready with critique. “It should have been framed differently.” “We missed a nuance.” “There was a better opportunity.” But progress is not a clean sprint. It is scrappy. Iterative. Real. CPOs, if your team is stalling, look for where perfection has replaced momentum. When getting it right becomes the priority, you start optimising for certainty, not outcomes. And in that space, speed dies. Experimentation dies. Learning dies. You do not lead through answers. You lead through movement. That means choosing even when you are unsure.That means backing the imperfect version. That means letting your team be wrong in public.

It is hard to do when your role has rewarded precision.When your reputation rests on knowing. When you have been the one in the room who “gets it. ”But clinging to that identity is what stops others from growing.If your team cannot make a move without your green light, you are not leading. You are bottlenecking. Ask: Where are you choosing safety over speed? What decisions are you overthinking?

What part of your role could be powered by trust, not control?

It is not about being reckless. It is about realising that nothing improves until it exists. Getting it wrong is part of getting it right. Just not on the first try. Let go of the pressure to be the authority.Be the one who creates the space for motion.Because in the end, progress will always outrun perfection.