The last 18 months have been the most trying in decades for business leaders. The conditions that normally make running an organization of any type – a business unit or a team rewarding is market expansion, revenue growth, rising pay, and incentives – have been absent for most, replaced by the unrelenting tasks of survival, retrenchment, and cost cutting. What should leaders do in this depressed environment? The first task of leadership, Bison argues, is to identify the default future, discuss it, and analyze it, and then go about re-imagining – and, in effect, rewriting the future. The Bison Group’s program, “The Six Levels of Leadership,” helps business leaders overcome the daunting task of facing the future, by teaching them to rewrite the future that leads to real business transformation with profitable growth. And the lessons are just as applicable to individuals.READ»
