Original Advice
“DO: Define success metrics before you start leading.”
Measure Before You March Forward
Stop mistaking motion for leadership. If you can't define victory, you will drag people through meetings, enthusiasm, and burnout without landing anywhere. Your standards evaporate when they aren't written. Metrics aren't cold; they're mercy. They keep you from rescuing everyone and resenting them later. Put the scoreboard on the wall before you pick up the whistle. Otherwise you're just noise with a calendar invite.
Define the outcome, the threshold, the clock. Choose numbers that can be counted by a stranger. Decide what gets done, what gets cut, and what gets ignored until next quarter. Metrics turn charisma into repeatable process. They protect focus, budget, and sleep. When the room wobbles, point to the measures. Lead like a scientist in a spotless kitchen: precise, ordinary, relentless.
Cosmic Context
As a Mercury-ruled earth sign, you weaponize clarity. Your power comes from turning chaos into clean lines and service into systems.
Action
──────Write three measurable outcomes and dates before first meeting.
✨ You are allowed to choose strict clarity over pleasing everyone. ✨