Leadership Wise

Conclusion

That's what I've got! Let me distill it down for you from the intro to the end:

• Make good decisions to be a good leader: Leadership is all about making good decisions repeatedly over time.
• Be wise: Business decisions are highly complex and highly contextual. Often polar opposite options for solving a problem can seem attractive, and both options may have all kinds of advocacy, including various business books, backing them up. We see these contradictory options in all areas of business whether we're considering people, processes, or products. Choosing between good options contextually is what makes a leader wise, which is what this book is about.
  • We flee to simplicity because it's comfortable: There is no way to boil down good decision-making to a set of aphorisms that succeed in all settings. This is why so many business books have a shelf life of a month until you read the next business book. They present one way of going about things as if it's the only way when our experience would tell us otherwise. We actually flee to business books and gurus, because their certitude is more comfortable than operating contextually.
• Define your priority and source many options: We can make better decisions when we acknowledge contextuality, define our problem and priority well, and source many options for solving the problem employing the space of possible levers we might pull as a leader and as a company. From these options, based on our single priority and any associated ...