
Today's Leadership Challenge: Thriving on Stakeholder Chaos
The secret to managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. Casey Stengel, manager, NY Yankees, 1949-1960 There is this new thing that is sacking leaders right and left. The old thing was firing leaders for poor performance – not enough revenue, profits, donors, votes or members. This new thing is leaders getting pressured, undermined or fired because of stakeholders – employees, customers, women, minorities groups, ch