Chapter 7
Stay mindful: the power of choice
This chapter is about managing the 1% of your time that is the high adrenaline, make or break moments of your career. Resilience is not just about managing adversity and persevering for the long haul. This chapter will help you make the right choices in real time and turn crises into opportunity.
Why it matters
There is an old adage that war is 99% boredom and 1% terror.120 That might equally apply to a career, or even to life. 99% of the time we cruise on autopilot. But 1% of the time is pure adrenalin. These are the moments of crisis and conflict that define your career. They are the moments when reputations are made or lost and power visibly shifts from one person to another. Some of these ...
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