Pop quiz here:

• Do you sometimes second-guess yourself about decisions until opportunities pass?
• Do colleagues and clients frequently seek your opinion on their big decisions?
• Do you often get feedback on the quality of your contributions in meetings?
• Do those meeting ideas produce the results you intend?

Like artists, wise leaders analyze and focus on a situation or problem. Then they decide and act. And even then, as theologian and author Oswald Chambers put it: “It’s never wise to be cocksure.”