CHAPTER 7
The Need for Judgment
Challenges, Pitfalls, Trip Wires, and Other Bad Stuff
HOLDING A SENIOR POSITION at almost any organization virtually guarantees that your efforts to build your leadership legacies will be fragmented and interrupted. But that statement isn’t meant to discourage legacy thinking. Instead, it suggests that to be effective, your approach to building legacies at work must acknowledge and accept the fact that facing trip wires, pitfalls, and other challenges is an integral part of the process.
With that in mind, we introduce the final element of our definition of legacy: judgment. Judgment, over time and through conflict and threat, is the overriding factor that pushes legacies to reach their potential or, conversely, ...
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