Challenge the Ordinary

Introduction

Today’s global economy leaves little room for error. It does not allow for mediocrity; the rules and players have changed, and ordinary simply won’t work anymore. If companies don’t have the best products and services, and the top people delivering them, their competition will—and they will do it all over the world, as we experience shifts in economic powers and changes in business paradigms.

Only those leaders who abandon conventional mindsets, challenge their own assumptions, and kill their sacred cows can hope to respond favorably to the volatile global financial systems that continue to morph just as we start to understand them. These successful leaders will need to learn to live in harmony with complexity, speed, instability, ...