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Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

debt crisis before deciding what and where to invest or whether to hire. 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. Safe harbors have uncertainty, too.

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Remaining Objective Is Hard, But the Best Leaders Figure Out How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

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.