Comments on: How Much Grizzle is in Your Dog? http://www.bloggingonleadership.com/2012/01/04/how-much-grizzle-is-in-your-dog/ A focus on what leadership is paid to do Sat, 19 May 2012 18:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Richard Izard http://www.bloggingonleadership.com/2012/01/04/how-much-grizzle-is-in-your-dog/#comment-2309 Richard Izard Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:15:02 +0000 http://www.bloggingonleadership.com/?p=285#comment-2309 Thanks Danny I found your blog really helpful. Your five things for 2012 reminded me of the Stockdale paradox in the book Good to Great. Jim Collins interviews Jim Stockdale former Vietnam prisoner of war. Collin's asks him who didn't survive and Stockdale said it was the optimists, those who always thought they would be home soon. The secret of survival he concluded was to have an unswerving belief that all would be well eventually whilst making a brutal assessment of the current reality, the brutal facts. Collins called it the Stockdale Paradox. Holding in tension the brutal facts of the current economic reality whilst keeping an unswerving belief that you will survive it may just be a really helpful balance as you develop your crystal clear plan for 2012. Thanks Danny I found your blog really helpful.

Your five things for 2012 reminded me of the Stockdale paradox in the book Good to Great. Jim Collins interviews Jim Stockdale former Vietnam prisoner of war.

Collin’s asks him who didn’t survive and Stockdale said it was the optimists, those who always thought they would be home soon.

The secret of survival he concluded was to have an unswerving belief that all would be well eventually whilst making a brutal assessment of the current reality, the brutal facts.

Collins called it the Stockdale Paradox.

Holding in tension the brutal facts of the current economic reality whilst keeping an unswerving belief that you will survive it may just be a really helpful balance as you develop your crystal clear plan for 2012.

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