The Fog of War: Data and Leadership | Anschuetz on Leadership

<p>The Big Themes:<br />• This thing called fog of war: And the fog of war is you don't know everything. And then as soon as the bullets start flying, you actually know less because it's like this aperture shrinks.<br />• Half the Fortune 500 will be replaced by other companies: We have the highest churn rate in the history of the list.<br />• Most of our corporations are run by terrible leaders: They have the technical background, but just look at our firms, look at how tone deaf they are.<br />• It's a fantastic world: It's the standards that you have to live up to. And in the exploration of this conversation, we can get to the heart of why leadership is so difficult.</p><p>The Big Quotes:<br />“I think we've lost the societal grit to do good leadership to the extent that we need to, because it's so freaking hard.”</p><p>“When you learn leadership, there's fundamental principles that are at play here, and sometimes they're in conflict.”</p><p>“Not the placards that the typical HR department puts on the walls, which are meaningless and senseless. A waste of print dollars.”</p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p>