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Leaving the Mountaintop
Leadership is always clearest and compelling on the mountaintop of vision. You see as far as your mind will let you. The expanse is comprehensive, invigorating, and calming almost impossibly at the same time. Sometimes you’ve worked tirelessly to get there, thinking of nothing else but the summit and its beyond. But no sooner than…
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Flamingo for breakfast
Strategy tends to be regarded as a journey – a long journey. It’s resource intensive, requires strong planning, begs definitive choices, and only survives with continued shepherding. It’s like the great migration across the Serengeti and Maasai Mara. But the migration takes months. You have to eat daily. People often forget that part. Strategy is…
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Lionhearted
We often think that to be like a lion is simply to be brave and courageous, or to live like the “king of the jungle.” But it is far more complex. Lions show courage in the face of most danger with purpose and ever-mindfulness of what is truly much bigger than themselves. For a lion…