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The Courage to Stand Alone

There is a specific kind of loneliness that only leaders know — the moment when you’re the only person in the room who thinks the deal is wrong, and everyone is waiting for you to get on board.

Episode Summary

Groupthink has driven some of the most catastrophic business failures in history — Enron, Lehman Brothers, Boeing’s 737 MAX. In every case, intelligent people looked at something that wasn’t working and decided not to say so out loud. The culture rewarded agreement. Dissent was costly. And the machine kept running until it ran off a cliff.

This doesn’t just happen at Fortune 500…

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