CHAPTER 2

For Senior Leaders Only

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

—Mahatma Gandhi

So I’ve told you the what and why. Now let me cover the who. Who will this book serve? Why them and not others?

This piece of the puzzle is critical to generating real change. My strategies for optimized performance may be useful to a variety of workers situated within an organization, but they will only gain widespread adoption if a select few spearhead them.

This distinctive power is in the hands of the senior leaders and the CEO.

Before I explain why, I want to emphasize that while a CEO is the paramount authority of any organization, he or she is not always best suited for remedying dumbed-down ...

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