CHAPTER 3
INTRODUCING THE FOUR CAPACITIES OF PURPOSE-LED LEADERSHIP
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
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There was tension in the air as the board members and I filed into the meeting room. Gone was the chattiness of the conversations over coffee that we’d just been having. People avoided looking at each other as they sat down. I noticed my own thumping chest and clammy palms. The rarefied atmosphere of the executive suite was, at that time, a new experience.
The ice thawed a little during the morning as my more seasoned co-facilitator gave some input. I stayed silent, appreciating the opportunity to be a fly on ...
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