You Don’t Need a Perfect Plan. You Need to Be Ready.

Let me take you back to my first serious run at the UN system.

I thought I had it locked.

Show up with:

1. A solid roadmap

2. Clear priorities

3. A strategy with steps

I’d studied how States move.
They set national plans.
They submit roadmaps.
They lay out decade-long strategies.

So I followed suit.

I planned.
I prepped agendas.
I mapped every inch of the process.
Felt ready.

And then reality hit.

A key ally shifted positions overnight.
A …