On Leadership and the Art of Peaceful Paranoia

An artful leader embodies a contradiction of peace and paranoia. They are at peace because they maintain crystal clarity, not because they do not see problems coming. They are paranoid because they maintain aggressive vigilance, not because they do not have confidence that problems can be solved. They anticipate on two levels: the timing of a problem and the scale of the problem. And they recognize the importance of striking at the heart of the problem before it grows. An artful leader not only “sees around corners”, they “shoot around corners.”