Week Seven-Thoughts on Chapter 9 and 10

Risk and Tenacious Creativity

     I would like to reflect Chapter 9 and 10 briefly. In Chapter 9, it said "Clearly, leaders at The Edge need to be comfortable with the discomfort of risk. Unnecessary risks you face and evaluate them carefully. Then balance risk and return, and have the courage to step up to those calculated risks that are worth taking". It means that we need to choose which risk should take or not. There is the Risk Assessment in the book which is very important to think the best- and worst-case outcomes, and to analyze this opportunity. This idea has similar point to Brent's self assessment that make own tendency clear. It is very important to recognize the possibility what kinds of outcomes are going to happen and expect. Of course, no body knows what things happen next exactly. That is why good leadership at The Edge is very difficult and unique. However, it is necessary to just analyze from current situation and imagine next situation. By doing so, we can prepare some solutions and next, it enables leaders and teams to move action and decision quickly.

 

     In Chapter 10, it tells similar things "Rather than expecting things to go right, successful leaders under these conditions should be prepared for things to go wrong. In fact, when at The Edge, a realistic expectations is that things will go wrong with greater frequency and magnitude than ever before. Once this reality is acceptable, daunting problems become a normal part of the journey. Then the leadership challenge becomes one of mobilizing the collective creativity of the team to find a solution". In this case, to expect things that will go wrong is not negative thinking, because it is required at the same time to find better solutions for the next. It seems obviously positive thinking!!

   I like this sentences "Optimism at The Edge means believing that somehow, some way, the team will succeed-in the long run. In the short run, however, problems are inevitable". Therefore,  it is necessary to face problems and conflicts actively and positively for trying to solve them.

...but "Every cloud has a silver lining."