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After training 30,000 CEOs, I learned something about how you can win in life and career. First, Start asking yourself dangerous questions like: Why do so many management theories fail? Why do I buy more self-help books if the rest didn't help? Why do the great companies in bestselling books start failing a few years later? Why do successful entrepreneurs run in the opposite direction of industry experts, consultants, and thought-leaders?.....After leaving MIT and Johns Hopkins, and with support from Oxford, I learned a lot from global expeditions to remote regions, and the privilege of ...

Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals. They don't fall prey to the platitudes or cliches we see so often see in leadership theory. Instead, they succeed by recognizing and surviving the dangers that challenge them as they take themselves and their teams to higher levels.