A promising venture begins with a real tension: a decision people cannot make well, a process that hides responsibility, or a capability whose consequences are poorly understood. The first task is to define that tension closely enough to test whether a new intervention deserves to exist.

Leadership matters in the design of boundaries. Who benefits, who bears risk, what evidence could disprove the premise, and how can the work be stopped or revised? These questions help an institution learn before momentum turns an assumption into infrastructure.

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