Responding to tough times requires more than retrenchment. As a manager, you need to renew the purpose and sustainability of your company. Psychologist and entrepreneur Steve Carter explores 'audacious leadership'. DOES YOUR organisation have the strength of leadership to meet the challenges that it currently faces? Is it focusing on the three critical factors that will make a difference over the coming months? Or is the leadership question quietly being dropped from view? Some days it feels like there is an economic tsunami of bad news and ill omen heading in the direction of business. Senior managers live in a real and desperate fear of their organisations being swept away or at least severely damaged. The instinctive reaction is to draw back, cut investments, cancel projects, retrench, pull back from the shore to a place that feels more safe and secure, build the stockade, and cancel Christmas. Without doubt some of these steps are necessary. But are they enough?
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