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The Price of Success

When bringing on a senior leader, you want to strive for a balance of cultural compatibility and creative discomfort that generates constructive transformation coupled with improved results. Companies need to make the hard calculus. Are we prepared for some amount of disruption, perhaps the loss of some beloved, long-time colleagues, or distress associated with the upset of traditional ways of doing business, of changing lines of authority? Is the CEO or Board *really* bought in and prepared to walk over coals for a while to get to that better place? This old article is as true today as it’s ever been.

Purposeful Discomfort: How Leaders Encourage Growth Through Discomfort Your job as a leader is to make people uncomfortable. Pursuing ambitious goals, confronting significant challenges, and moving into uncharted territories—all of which leadership often entails—require people to embrace discomfort. In my new book, Leaders Open Doors, I explain that the central fun...