Tabitha Scott, CEO, Cole Scott Group

Energy drives all living things — that includes organizations. People, the seasons of the year, and companies share a common life cycle: birth, growth, maturity, and decline. Importantly, for an organization to survive, it must jump onto a new growth curve before reaching the end of its decline phase. Companies that complete the jump, like Amazon, survive, while others that don’t, like Blockbuster, fail. Any company can find new life with four types of energy potential: innovation, optimization, social and elemental.

Jack Bergstrand, Author, The Velocity Advantage

When faced with criticism, leaders usually utter some version of the same cliché: “complain all you want, but the view is pretty different when you’re in power.”

Presidents say it about the Oval Office. CEOs say it about the corner office. Shareholders say it about the boardroom.

The sentiment, of course, is that you never know the full measure of a problem until you’re in the driver’s seat.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and so on…

But is the view really that different, depending on where you sit?