Leaders are tasked and paid to make decisions.
Hard calls. Tie-breaking calls. Go for the Gold, or take the safe route.
Coach Joe Paterno had a lot of wins, but many were taken away from him because of one mis-step.
Pope Benedict XVI , however, did call it quit (right timing).
And Tesla–Solarcity–Space X? the jury is still out on that one risky “pal”.
No pain no gain.
One good thing about this brutal Recession: it separates the wheat from the chaff.
The wheat here might be Indie-Capitalism, sports diplomacy, soft-power influence…
We simply cannot afford full-scale hardware-driven conflicts as in years past.
First the Soviet bloc folded. And now, the US with Sequestration.
Our machine has gotten ahead of us, the cart before the horse.
If only we could disrupt ourselves, or press “reset”. One other way is to review the old play book and give it another try.
For instance, it’s quite couner-intuitive since the IT industry migrates to the Cloud away from the office, Yahoo wants its workers to head back to it.
They will probably work out of virtual stations, with wi-fi and white boards, to lunch in play room like in nearby Googleplex.
Dilemma and Decision.
Work and life balance.
Private cloud or complete virtuality.
Hybrid or plug-in EV.
Key Stone or kicking the can.
21st-century dilemma requires 21st-century leadership.
Who among us are ready and willing to step up to the plate!
He who lives in a glass house refuses to throw stones.
When looking at the game from that standpoint, executive’s high exit bonus is not such a bad deal. It would cost more for them to stay on than to leave. Zappos learned this and paid its new employees a bonus for leaving than for sticking around. It’s the culture, stupid. Decision or dilemma.
Thang Nguyen 555 