Playing safe is very risky.
Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
The question isnโt whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.
What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?
Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.