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Getting Better at Getting Better | RKG

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Every leader has their list of the decisions they wish they could redo. This is particularly true now given the violent market swings in both directions in the past few years. Maybe you hired executives assuming you’d achieve larger scale than you actually reached; now you sense you have the wrong team. Maybe the layoff you did was too small and you aren’t moving fast enough. Maybe your big strategic bet isn’t working and you’d be better off declaring it a failure and reallocating resources. But as you think about fixing these mistakes, something holds you back. Somehow the risk-reward seems off. Because in the short term the problems probably aren’t existential…but the proposed solutions are definitely painful. Let’s go back to the layoff example because it’s the most agonizing one I can think of. Maybe you cried when you told the company some teammates were being let go. You told them you were sorry about letting them down. You swore you would never make that mistake again. But what

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