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Article: The Anxiety Advantage
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- Chief Executive
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- July 1, 2008
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A healthy level of anxiety is the hidden lever of business success. BY ROBERT H. ROSEN
For any chief executive, anxiety is a fact of life. To thrive in today's world, CEOs must achieve top-line growth, push innovation and creativity, align strategy with performance, and manage for value. They must build their leadership bench strength. They must think globally and plan for the long term while responding to unexpected problems and opportunities in the short term. Today's top leaders must continually reinvent themselves and their organizations if they are to build and sustain a company.
One capability makes it possible for leaders to succeed at these crucial tasks-the capability to live with ...