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Imagine your executives are adopting a dangerous belief: people only perform when threatened by crisis. When the building is on fire, performance soars. When competitors attack, teams mobilize. When survival is at stake, magic happens. This point of view sounds plausible, but it should worry you. Yes, crises can bring out extraordinary levels of commitment …
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Why Playing It Safe Will Erase Your Leadership Legacy The conventional wisdom says: stay focused, deliver on your core responsibilities, don’t overstep. But the leaders who’ll be celebrated a generation from now are ignoring that advice entirely. Picture this: You’re running a major public sector organization. Every performance indicator is green. Your board loves your …
And how one Jamaican leader used scientific thinking to crack a problem everyone else had given up on Ask most CEOs about their strategic plan and you’ll hear about vision statements, multi-year roadmaps, and quarterly KPIs. What you won’t hear is the one thing that actually matters: What do we believe has to be true …
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