That gives me a pretty good feel for what many business people are thinking and struggling with. Over the past decade I have worked with hundreds of corporate executives, business owners and high-potential professionals transitioning into management or leadership across varying geographies, cultures, business sizes or industries in over 20 countries. And we’re witnessing even more alarming examples on a global political and economic scale. Being able to “milk” an advantage may only give us a couple of years, at best, before someone has a better idea or a better way to deliver it. Today’s competitive business world is all go-go-go and then some, if we want to stay ahead or even alive in business. Greed is omnipresent – whether greed for money or for power. Staying in power means more and more short-term emphasis on getting voted back in rather than meeting the nation’s strategic needs. Are you one of those “type-A” personalities focused on results, results, results? You know, head down, rear-end up, just driving outcomes? Leaving little time to step back and reflect on how you’re doing? On what impact you are having on those around you, and what your relentless drive might be costing you? Personally? Professionally? Or in your organization or business? Indeed without insight, foresight or maybe even without hindsight?Or perhaps you work with or for such personalities? So you know exactly what I’m talking about? How often would they admit that in all the running, the only time they “take stock” is in hindsight? You know, after everything has been said and done and delivered (and hopefully paid)?And how often is that hindsight too little and too late? No matter how strong the learnings it generated – if the perpetrator had the time (or the remaining energy) to listen? Unfortunately, the examples we see coming out of Canberra are no better.
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