Get There Early

Preface

This book started from pain. As I have worked with top-executive teams—especially over the past few years—I have concluded that the most intense pain that leaders experience, the pain that keeps them awake at night, is caused by not being able to solve problems.

For many leaders, the challenges seem to be coming faster and faster. The challenges look like problems at first, but they don’t go away. The challenges seem to be getting messier even as solutions become more elusive. For today’s leaders, it seems as though solvable problems are morphing into no-win dilemmas before their eyes.

Most of today’s leaders, of course, were trained to problem-solve. They see problems everywhere, but they have trouble recognizing dilemmas—even when ...