Future Pitfalls may Need Cleaning up Now By Steve Beckow

[Manuel Tavares]

Future Pitfalls may Need Cleaning up Now
By Steve Beckow
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I’m wanting to manage the predictable pitfalls in my life before the starting flag drops.

One of them is my own impatience.

Again I’m reminded of the Hitler effect.

French historian Guillaume Pretty described it and what he said has really stayed with me:

“I’d say that Hitler was a man trying to gamble and that, at the start, the fact that he neglects the whole dimension of strategic tactics, the type of ground logistical problems, all of these oversights don’t catch up with Hitler the war lord.

“And then, one day, all of these conditions for war, which should allow a war leader to grow, catch up with him, and from then on, all his bets systematically fail.” (1)

As a post-Reval CEO, I get that I could gamble that people would overlook my errors and faults because I’m “the boss.” I could gamble, like Hitler, on...
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