This is the calculus of conflict avoidance; it's an unintuitive sort of combined wait / risk calculation:
A) Risk failure / execution now for doing what your instinct tells you you need to do now.
OR
B) Wait for somebody else to take action or somebody else to save you (later) or for some other plan to take shape, risking that none will come to fruition.
relevant
This, so much.
This is the calculus of conflict avoidance; it's an unintuitive sort of combined wait / risk calculation:
A) Risk failure / execution now for doing what your instinct tells you you need to do now.
OR
B) Wait for somebody else to take action or somebody else to save you (later) or for some other plan to take shape, risking that none will come to fruition.