“Eppur Si Muove” (And yet it moves) -Gaileo-Galilei

Approaching 500 years ago, the Italian polymath Galileo had the audacity to posit that the Earth moves around the Sun, not the other way around, as conventional “wisdom” at the time had it. The apocryphal story goes that he was forced, on pain of death, to recant his heretical proclamation. After he did so, however, he then muttered “Eppur si muove”, or “and yet it moves”. Broadly, what I take from this as a meaning is that no matter what people may say, the truth is always the truth. For leaders, sometimes Galileo’s phrase may be highly valuable in the face of an alternate view held by many as to the right path ahead. Such key moments may come when a leader has to stay with the truth, their truth, no matter what they are told by others, by the echo chamber, by the groupthink, that “this is not the way we do things here”, or “we’ve always done it this way”, or “We can’t do that because {x}”.