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Determine Your Line of Sight

Because the dilemma’s noise and clutter will keep you chasing your tail and following shiny objects while your true priorities remain elusive

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THE DILEMMA TURNS US AROUND and distorts our priorities. As a result, we end up pursuing goals and outcomes that are not necessarily important, valuable, or consistent with what we care about. Accelerating this “creep and drift” is one of the dilemma’s specialties.

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  1. Jerry Gilley and Ann Maycunich, Beyond the Learning Organization (New York: Perseus Books, 2000).

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Sostrin, J. (2015). Determine Your Line of Sight. In: The Manager’s Dilemma. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485809_5

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