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How I Approach the Toughest Decisions
“What would Obama do?” we took to asking each other in moments when his heart flagged. How do you handle yourself on the way out, regardless of whether you were given the respect you deserved?
Jerry Colonna • Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
Rely too much on experience and you close yourself off to the new that doesn’t pattern match the old.
Rely too much on understanding and you lose a risk tolerance that brings big upside.
Rely too much on gut and you’re shooting in the dark.
So somehow, we navigate the balance, hopefully better and better, and that’s our process of improving. I find
... See moremany managers struggle with it—not because the mechanics are hard, but because the approach requires at least three fundamental shifts in mindset. First, in the early steps, they must avoid asking “What should we do?” and instead ask “What might we do?” Managers, especially those who pride themselves on being decisive, jump naturally to the former
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