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5 min read“What got you here won’t get you there.” That line, from Marshall Goldsmith’s own earlier work, is the quiet engine of this conversation. The world is changing too fast for any single leader’s internal map to stay accurate. The old model—where the leader knew more than the people—is dead. Today, the people often know more than the leader. The problem is not just uncertainty; it is that the change affecting your business is coming from directions you cannot yet see. Goldsmith and co-author Cornelia Choe argue that the only way to lead in this environment is to stop relying on your own judgment alone and instead systematically broaden your perspective by pulling in insights from the stakeholders around you. They call this practice “panoramic leadership.”
The core problem: operating on a partial map
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:45) **Introducing the Problem: Why Leaders Can't Rely on Their Own Judgment** - Co-authors Cornelia Cho and Marshall Goldsmith explain the core challenge of leading in a hyper-uncertain world.
- 2 (05:45) **The Core Mechanism: Operating on Partial Maps** - How leaders make decisions that look right from their limited view but miss the full landscape.
- 3 (06:28) **Case Study: DBS Bank Operationalizes Panoramic Leadership** - A concrete example of scaling the approach across four organizational levels.
- 4 (08:06) **Tactical How-To: Building the Stakeholder Circle** - Practical methods for integrating diverse perspectives into daily leadership.
- 5 (09:36) **The Autopilot Trap and How to Escape It** - Why leaders get comfortable and miss signals, and what to do about it.
- 6 (11:25) **The Monday Morning Action Plan** - The first concrete steps a leader can take immediately.
- 7 (13:05) **From Buy-In to Better Decisions: Three Key Questions** - How to move beyond just getting agreement to actually unearthing new approaches.
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Show Notes
What if the key to success in today’s business world wasn’t about making difficult decisions quickly—but about broadening the scope through which you make decisions? Leaders Alliance CEO Cornelia Choe and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith argue that being open to more perspectives can help leaders navigate an increasingly complicated world and lead better. They share their framework for this mindset shift, and examples of leaders who have done this well. Choe and Goldsmith are the authors of the book The Panoramic Leader: How Great Leaders See Differently.
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