The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire!

CHAPTER 5

PHOENIX TOOLS AND HABITS: EXTRA STRATEGIC PERCEPTION

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

—MIYAMOTO MUSASHI, Japanese soldier, strategist, writer, and philosopher¹

The Phoenix Attitude and Breakthrough transformation doesn’t happen by itself, not even in leaders and organizations eager to change their old ways.

One Encounter participant, Damian Higgins, the CEO of an Asian-Pacific equipment manufacturer, summed up this dilemma:

You know, I thought I was a strategic thinker. But I now know I was probably thinking at 37.5 feet, as opposed to what I really need to do at the 50,000-foot level, which is to say: look, go ...