CHAPTER 5

The Future

Space, Innovation, Reimagining

What Is the Reality?

Leadership is not an ideology … it is a reality! And the leadership reality is that our organizational, societal, and political landscapes are unfolding at a phenomenal pace. I would even go out on a limb to say that the way we currently live is reaching a crescendo … a tipping point—at individual, collective, and community levels.

It is at these tipping points that undisputedly leaders come into their own. Either they rise to the challenge or they fade into the background, and this final chapter explores the ways that CEOs can rise up and choose to navigate through the maze and pace of our changing times.

I begin by assessing what it means to simply pause and even stop, ...

Get The Aperture for Modern CEOs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.