CHAPTER 2

Top Three Business Gremlins That Sabotage CEO Effectiveness

The problem is not people being uneducated.The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard P. Feynman1965 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

While I was standing in line at the library one day, the picture of a guy in a flight suit and a helmet under his arm caught my eye. It was the front cover of the book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. I picked it up to have a closer look and read the very impressive accolades on this guy whom I had never heard of before. I don’t think I have ever finished reading a book in ...

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