What if the plan you're defending is the very thing keeping your project from succeeding? Most leaders treat plans like contracts — but the most effective ones treat them like hypotheses. Here's what that shift actually looks like in practice.

In this episode, K.C. Barr's article When the Plan Stops Fitting the Work gets a full deep-dive treatment. We unpack three concepts that change how you lead under uncertainty: why plans are testable hypotheses, not fixed commitments; how to spot the silent behavioral drift that formal status reports always miss; and why the ability to adapt isn't a loss of control — it's the most reliable form of it. K.C.'s "my take" connects Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets and General McChrystal's Team of Teams to the real-world stories of Diane, James, and Elena — three leaders who navigated ...