Successful people are often insanely lucky and completely blind to the element of luck in their lives.

The most important part of any plan is planning for things not going according to plan.

Sounds like a boss I had. All kinds of short or no notice changes, often bypassing change control, leading to massive influx of tickets, burnout, turnover, and ultimately, probably, patient deaths, but those numbers aren't tracked in a way that it could be traced back to bad IT decisions.

If there could have been votes of no confidence....

Industrial grade delusion right there..

This doesn't really belong in this community. There's nothing lunatic about it.

I worked in mid-level management for some time, and among the most important skills was the ability to recognize what is good enough.

If you have seven courses of action available, of which 3 are good, don't spend time choosing the optimal one. If it is obvious right away, then good, go for that. But otherwise just make a decision. I often literally tossed a coin. I've got thousand things going on in my thoughts at once, and it makes no sense to disrupt them by trying to make something maybe 2% more optimal.

Just make a random pick and then deal with what comes. It's really a good way to do stuff, regardless of whether you're "successful" or not.