The truth is if you have the trust of the people you can go as far and as fast as you want to go. But that might take six weeks or six years.

Your guideline to some principles which will help you make it through the next few months.

Like teeth on a wheel or a gear, each step in our process is a critical step to achieving our desired future. Imagine if one tooth of the gear has been worn down or is missing, it probably will not affect the overall process too much in the beginning. But as the machine continues to grind on, adding extra work to make up for the missing pieces in the system, eventually, the gears will wear down even further. The teeth will skip key connecting points with other gears, causing the entire system to shut down and revert to its nature of least work. Which, for a machine,  can often be no work. 

It is your responsibility to recognize that paradox, help encourage and equip the healthy people in your organization; while developing or moving on the unhealthy people in your organization. It is that simple. It is not easy, but it is simple. 

Your numbers do not define you, but they do offer more clarity into what is happening in your organization. So, I am still going to ask you about your numbers because that number tells me so many hidden things, along with allowing me to ask my next questions.