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Suffer Growing Pains Joyfully
control, new product development, marketing, sales, administration, budget-
ing, staffing, international sales, finance, customer service—everything. In
fact, to control cash flow, I personally signed all purchase orders over $500
and all outgoing checks. From the perspective of hindsight, I now understand
the importance of rising to the leadership position and paying attention to the
10 Leadership Actions on the following list:
Ten Leadership Actions
1. Establishing the vision and mission for the company
2. Leading change in response to opportunities and threats
3. Developing an entrepreneurial, high-performance company culture
4. Training the management team and line supervisors
5. Growing profitably with a focus on sustainability
6. Formulating and implementing an astute strategic plan
7. Building and allocating resources
8. Setting the moral tone of the company
9. Managing risk
10. Communicating continuously to all levels of the company
Navigating Disruptive Global Changes
We are living in an amazing period of irreversible global hypertransformation
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that is rippling through every part of our business and personal lives. I am
referring to the dynamics portrayed in Figure 5.1: Turbulent Global Changes
and Figure 7.1: The Present Macro-economic Cycle. In his best-selling book
The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman discusses “Ten Forces that Flattened the
World” that are ...