Leading product in enterprise is different. Real momentum is quiet. Teams solving problems without asking permission. Stakeholders bringing you problems instead of solutions. Decisions happening in rooms you're not in, and they're the right decisions.

Most leaders measure momentum wrong. They track velocity, features shipped, meetings held. The real signals are different: fewer escalations, faster decisions, people connecting their daily work to outcomes without being told to. When momentum is working, the energy shifts from "how do we get approval" to "how do we make this better."

If you're still the bottleneck for every decision, you don't have momentum. You have motion.