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Yet even at Harvard Business School
there are signs that something might be
wrong with a leadership style that values
quick and assertive answers over
quiet, slow decision-making.
Every autumn the incoming class participates
in an elaborate role-playing
game called the Subarctic Survival Situation.
“It is approximately 2:30 p.m.,
October 5,” the students are told, “and
you have just crash-landed in a float
plane on the east shore of Laura Lake in
the subarctic region of the northern
Quebec-Newfoundland border.” The
students are divided into small groups
and asked to imagine that their group
has salvaged fifteen items from the
plane—a compass, sleeping bag, axe,
and so on. Then they’re told to rank
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