To YET AGAIN see my career through a GoT lens, I'd rather be showrunner for S7/8 if Martin has already given me the plot than if not. If not, I'd rather be showrunner for earlier seasons. I'd also rather execute the production of a plot that already has direction than come up with the plot, assuming lots of people have a stake in the plot and I'm not confident where it should go. That's the thing, how much control I want is a function of the consequences of a wrong turn and how confident or convicted I feel. I avoid taking control of situations in which the analytics are unclear, my intuition and desires are unclear, and people have a lot of stake in the game. Let's say I have to control such a situation; what levers do I have? I can try to clarify the analytics (quantify the decision) as much as possible, though this can be hard; I can try to mine my intuition better, and then trust it once I find something, but often I have no intuition that bubbles up through my hard crust of analysis; or I can move on to other problems that I actually care about. Lots of leadership requires that intuition that feels so buried for me; lots of times, clarifying the analysis is futile -- it only takes you far enough to whittle down the sensible options, but not far enough to pull the trigger. Some people mostly operate by intuition; if their intuition is good, they succeed more than they fail (in magnitude if not in frequency); if bad, they should try analysis; but in either case, they're taking L's along the way. I'm shaped by a refusal to take L's. Should I mold my career to reward that, or mature my attitude for the sake of personal and professional growth? Most careers punish my level of scrutiny -- certainly Agile Product Management does. Should I seek a career that rewards precision in analysis, or get in better touch with my intuition? Or just seek a career that I care more about, supposing the intuition will bubble up if heated by my heart?
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