Peter Drucker used to say that the great leaders make “life and death decisions,” which, as he pointed out, were usually about people. Those are the decisions that cause big directional changes in businesses, where the life or death of the vision depends on someone stepping up and acting. If you have a sense of powerlessness in your situation or a map that doesn’t let you act, you won’t make life-or-death decisions. Instead, you will tend to accept the slow death of morale, initiative, and sometimes even the business itself. And on the personal side of life, you will miss out on all things
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