Pakistan, Sept. 29 -- There is something strange about leadership. We expect leaders to have answers. The higher someone rises in an organisation, the less comfortable we seem to become with hearing them say, "I don't know."

I have often wondered whether we have got this backwards. A leader who believes he must always be right will eventually surround himself with people who are afraid to tell him that he is wrong. That is a dangerous place for any institution to be.

The most di?cult decisions rarely arrive with complete information. They come with uncertainty, competing priorities and consequences that cannot be fully anticipated. Waiting for perfect clarity is often another way of avoiding a decision altogether.

Leadership, therefore...