The bottom line is, if you have to move in a firefight, the marketplace, or a job role, you do so for one main reason: to strategically improve the position of your team or organization. Any discomfort, whether it be physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, is secondary. If you aren’t experiencing discomfort, trepidation, or failure, then you’re doing something that will bring about far graver consequences: you’re trying to avoid it altogether. In the hypothetical gunfight scenario, change only occurs when its significance has garnered the shared attention of everyone involved. You don’t
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