1:  Having foresight is the “lead” in “leader,” Robert Greenleaf once wrote in The Servant as Leader. 

It was the late 1990s.  It was an analog world.  But Ed Breen, then CEO of General Instruments, could see the future.  And the future was digital.

“I’d just been made CEO the year before,” Ed remembers in Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra‘s terrific book CEO … continue reading