Chapter 1
The Strategic Leader’s New Mandate
Delivering Results While Building Organizational Capacity for Change
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
—Carl Jung
Strategic leaders1 today are facing unrelenting pressures to deliver results. Indeed, whole books are being written based on the central premise that the purpose of leadership is to deliver results—on time and within budget.2 In light of these withering pressures to deliver predictable short-term results, most leaders conclude that their only option ...
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