“Survival A condition that exists whenever you fear that you could lose something, the loss of which is threatening to your life. It could be a threat to your physical life, but commonly it’s a threat to your professional life, or even more likely, a threat to any important aspect (family, finances, children) of your life. When we say survival, most of us think about the low end of survival, which is a last gasp for breath. The high end of survival is success. Some leaders succeed by never taking risks, while others succeed by taking risks all the time. Depending on what is popular in the leadership arena, or what the concerns of a particular organization or industry happen to be, either risk-takers or those who won’t take risks will be in demand. In either case, risk-taking or risk-avoiding, the drive is to survive—code name: “succeed.”