There’s no such thing as a riskless strategy If you want things to change, you have to try to change things, and that entails assuming the risk that things might not go the way you want. Every plan is a guess about the future, and sometimes our guesses are wrong.
You’ve already hit the iceberg A common mistake when things go wrong is to spend time thinking about how they could have gone. Or how we’d hoped things would turn out.
Not deciding is still deciding “The two biggest dangers in decision making are not making enough decisions and then not correcting the bad ones.”— David C. Baker