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Purple PaperSM: Prepare to lead: How you lead today won’t get you through tomorrow

Written by Cheryl Flink, Ph.D.

The Truist Leadership Institute’s leadership insights series, “Navigating Leadership Challenges in the Business Lifecycle” explores the growth, established, and transition business phases along with their associated leadership challenges. The articles offer insights into how to navigate these changes and point to a core theme: All leaders must move from “what to do” to “how to be”—a fundamental shift in leadership based in self-awareness and the development of leadership capacities to move their companies forward.

Why should executives care about this? Why should they invest in leadership development and the hard and sometimes painful work of change? Because access to capital depends on leadership.

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