 President Harry Truman once remarked that progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. The idea of a courageous leader is not often considered in this context, but creating a vision for the future should be job number one for effective leaders. Along with such a vision comes risk, which of course implies the courage to assume that risk and serve as to a better future for the organization and its people. Honest assessment of risk can often be challenging. We have a natural inclination to understand potential risks and impacts once we have done the hard work of forming and communicating a strategic vision. Here again, leaders need to demonstrate courage in assessing and mitigating risk in an otherwise well developed strategy. As with so many other leadership practices, inclusion will shine a light on these risks, but at the end of the day that risk is owned by the courageous leader. Lead well this week.