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Business leadership requires unpopular decisions

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Published on 2023-09-04 by John Collins.
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In business, to be a successful leader often requires unpopular
decisions. Your job is to deliver value for the company and it's
shareholders, not to be popular.

In politics, unpopular decisions end careers. To be a successful
political leader, you need to be popular because you need to get
reelected.

To summarize the key differences, business leaders are judged by the
monetary value that they add to the bottom line of a company, while
political leaders are judged by how popular they are every 4-5 years
during an election campaign. They are not the same.

If businesses were run like democracies, they would largely fail, and
when a business leader tries to be popular instead of doing what
needs to be done, that is often to the detriment of the company that
pays their salary.

There is a reason why successful CEOs rarely move into politics: it's
an entirely different game with different definitions of what success
looks like.

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