Put another way, your leadership team has to “climb the tree” more often than others. I liken long-term prediction to a team of short-sighted people cutting a road through a jungle. They may be the most productive team that’s ever cut a road, or they may be twice as productive as any other team before them. However, if there’s no leader there to climb a tree and tell them where the road is going, they might very well be cutting a zigzag. Get good at taking the long view. As leaders, you’ll need to stop working in the business 100 percent of the time, and as Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth
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