76. Richard Fairbank “ Finding a visionary strategy . . . as a leader is a very intuitive thing. There are many things a leader can’t predict using data. How do you know what you will need to have in three years? Yet you’ve got to start development now or you won’t have it when you need it. Our company hires brilliant data analysts; we have one of the biggest Oracle databases in the world. But at the end of the day, I find that all the data does is push us farther on the frontier where it’s uncertain all over again.” ( Primal Leadership , p. 42)
77. Adaptability Reality Testing: Ability to keep our emotions from overly influencing interpretations of events Testing the stories (theories) we make up about others