Start the year with straight talk about performance, learning, and reality. The start of a new year always invites reflection — and as leaders, we’re pretty good at pointing out what didn’t work. We conduct root-cause analysis, build corrective plans, and talk about how to avoid repeating mistakes. That part is familiar. What we often skip is the deliberate celebration of the things that went right. The projects that landed. The teams that adapted. The customers we kept. The