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What makes some market leaders so effective when the stakes are high, while some fall short? What makes some able to not only survive but to lead their organizations to new heights even in high-risk, fast-changing times? The answer is succinct but multi-layered: such market leaders display courage, judgment, and fortitude. High-stakes leadership will not require unnatural power, nor is it predicated on a dangerous situation. The three signature character traits can be cultivated by anyone at any level in any company, big or small. Organizational and command advisor Constance Dierickx describes high-stakes command in a simple, three-part model that illuminates the mindsets, strategies, and techniques leaders must pull upon to make hard decisions, take an unpopular stand, or dismiss convention, providing real-world samples across a range of sectors and industries. Dierickx developed her model of high-stakes command to help her clients - executives at organizations which range from start-ups to nonprofits to large, global companies - better determine what they need to bring strategy to life. This, she found, is the great gulf running a business, the huge space between idea and results. High-Stakes Management helps market leaders sharpen their capability to:

• action decisively, with clarity and emphasis
• test ideas using reason, and course right as needed
• be resolute and inspire others to keep, even when confronted with challenges

Leading requires the courage to make conscious decisions about what to do, the judgment to split up information from short-term tendencies, and the fortitude to stay true to oneself and one's quest. When market leaders do these things, they also become professors, leading their groups by example, often without recognizing it. The fundamental areas of good command endure even as the surroundings and techniques change. Indeed, courage, judgment, and fortitude are not simply tools for survival, they are the means by which we sculpt the future.