---
id: "action-distribute-thinking"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Shift the spotlight."]
tags: ["management", "delegation"]
related: ["concept-open-strategy", "concept-heroic-founder-myth"]
action: "Share key dilemmas transparently and invite strategic input across the organization."
outcome: "Distribute the psychological burden of leadership and anchor decisions in a shared mission."
speakers: ["Dina Denham Smith", "Neri Karra Sillaman"]
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-118-overcoming-self-doubt-launching"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/03/overcoming-self-doubt-when-launching-your-own-business"
sourceTitle: "Overcoming Self-Doubt When Launching Your Own Business"
---
# Practice Open Strategy

**Action:** Operationalize a shift away from self-referential leadership by transparently sharing key business dilemmas with your team and inviting input across all levels of the organization.

**How:** Let strategic direction emerge from *collective intelligence* rather than solitary rumination. This distributes the psychological burden of leadership and anchors decisions in the shared mission.

**Outcome:** Distribute the psychological burden of leadership and anchor decisions in a shared mission.

**Fits into:** Step 3 (*Shift the spotlight*) of [[framework-managing-founder-doubt]]; the practice of [[concept-open-strategy]] and the antidote to the [[concept-heroic-founder-myth]]. Note the external-signaling tension flagged in [[question-balancing-confidence-and-vulnerability]] — and that this requires psychological safety to work.