N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better. What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. If you sit in the big chair, you don’t get paid to make safe decisions; you get paid to make the right decision. CEOs whose default setting is to “play it safe” do not impress me.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Sail away from the safe harbor. Of course, Twain spelled sales wrong and the lawyers keep advising not to leave the safe harbor. Although it is completely recreational, it is a story of great leadership. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Mark Twain.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

Companies are sitting on piles of cash, several CEOs have told me, as they wait for a resolution to the U.S. Europeans wait for a resolution to financial woes from the south affecting the north, and in a safe, sane Nordic country, Norway, fear rises from a seemingly insane terrorist shooting that cost nearly a hundred lives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

There is no single leadership trait that guarantees success in any profession, but there is, based on my experience, one that many of the best leaders share: a fierce commitment to objectivity. In other words, during periods of great stress, our best leaders rely on sound tradecraft as their safe harbor. Danae Diaz/Getty Images.

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