This was one of those lessons that was tough to learn – tough, because it was very expensive time and money wise, and doubly tough because I had to learn it more than once. Vision inversion can be deadly to your company. It occurs when your key people put their vision for their position above your vision for the company. It’s quite normal throughout the ranks – and its ok – but for your direct reports, it can be deadly. Whether people I hired knew it or not, I always made a p

Every board decision assumes the organization can execute the company’s strategy. If the organization fails to achieve the outcomes expected, the root cause is routinely categorized as one of two things: a “failure to execute”, or “insufficient capital to execute”. Both of those failure modes are typically tied to the leadership and management team, but (in my opinion), the fault is equally divided between the board and the CEO. Why? It often comes down to the critical conn

Extreme Ownership teaches lessons about leadership that were learned on the battlefield that can be applied in business as well.