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Change Your Vantage Point
It’s like being a fighter pilot and having a lot of experience in the simulator, but regardless, when you go up there and get in your first dogfight, it’s different.
—Trip Miller
Congratulations! You’ve achieved your dream and gotten that incredible job. You are going to breathe the rarefied air at or near the top. This is a new beginning and a wonderful opportunity to make even more of a positive impact on your employees, customers, and external stakeholders, and possibly the world. Your access to resources, information, and people has expanded, as has your ability to make decisions on important issues and to drive change.
Of course, the challenges expand as well.
In fact, one of the highest-stakes, highest-risk ...
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