Creative Execution: What Great Leaders Do to Unleash Bold Thinking and Innovation

Five Poison Pills

While the East slams together its own Creative Execution formula, the West wallows in self-doubt. As Dambisa Moyo, a specialist in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs pungently explains, “For the past 500 years, Western economic dominance has been a story of ruthlessness and self-interest. Its military power, its global hold, its influence on the world, have been the history of its trade, or rather the history of its single-minded ability to extract from other countries, other continents, other peoples, the material, land and people that would drive its economy forward … be it Venice or Holland, Spain, France, Great Britain or the United States … the West maintained its iron grip—implacable in its determination to extract from ...