Leadership is not merely about making a plan and sticking to it.
Sometimes remaining faithful to the purpose requires departing from the strategy.
In this edition of Leaning Leadership Ladder, I reflect on risk, failure, responsibility, and what I call “purposeful foolishness”—those moments when a leader must make a bold and possibly unpopular decision because it appears to be the right thing to do.
Courageous leadership is not careless. It listens to counsel, examines the evidence, weighs the consequences of acting and not acting, and accepts responsibility for whatever follows.
When have you had to depart from a plan in order to preserve a principle?
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