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How leaders take risks

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Roll the dice!

That’s what leaders must do from time to time. Complacency is always problematic.

Novelist William Faulkner once noted, “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

That’s what good leaders do from time to time, and, in the process, they push their organizations toward new goals.

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John Baldoni is chair of leadership development at N2Growth, is an internationally recognized leadership educator and executive coach. In 2014, Trust Across America named him to its list of top 100 most trustworthy business experts. Also in 2014, Inc.com named Baldoni to its list of top 100 leadership experts, and Global Gurus ranked him No. 11 on its list of global leadership experts. Baldoni is the author of more than a dozen books, including his newest, “MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership.”

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