When hope is based on real-world experience, knowledge and tangible and intangible data, it results in trust, which is necessary to implementing any strategy. Without faith in the people, processes and technologies involved, how can we achieve anything? Hope recognizes the reality that failure happens, success is not assured, the laws of physics don’t change and prudence is needed to discern when to persevere — and when to pivot. Hope doesn’t demarcate a linear path, but it does guide us through twists and turns.  Hope views the glass as half full, not half empty.  Hope supports realistic optimism, a necessary component of success.

Hope Is a Strategy (Well, Sort Of) – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review.