Why Long-Term Thinking Is Failing Leaders Right Now

Why Long-Term Thinking Is Failing Leaders Right Now

For years, leadership advice was straightforward. Set the vision. Pick a point on the horizon. Steer toward it. Adjust for obstacles, but do not lose sight of where you are going. That advice assumes you can see the horizon. Right now, many leaders cannot.

The long term did not disappear. It accelerated.

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The Most Dangerous Cost in Leadership Isn't Money. It's Commitment to the Past.

The Most Dangerous Cost in Leadership Isn't Money. It's Commitment to the Past.

Emotionally, walking away from a past loss feels worse than risking a future one. Psychologists call this loss aversion. People feel losses more intensely than equivalent gains. A million-dollar loss feels catastrophic in a way a potential million-dollar gain never will. That is why leaders keep pouring resources into failing projects.

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Why I Stopped Pushing Annual Planning

Why I Stopped Pushing Annual Planning

Most leaders I work with dread annual planning. Not because planning is useless. Because everyone has an opinion on how you should do it. None of them run your business. And you’re stuck trying to satisfy everyone else’s version of “the right way” instead of figuring out what actually works for you. That’s the first problem.

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3 Strategies You Should Adopt in Your 2020 Planning

3 Strategies You Should Adopt in Your 2020 Planning

We don't want to have to be in a position to make passionate decisions, especially in business. Good planning means accounting for all outcomes while we are in our natural state, operating in Quadrant II (one of Strategy), not Quadrant I (Crisis). Here are some strategies to follow to help you do just that.

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