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Stockdale was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for seven-and-a-half years. His memoir describes grim details that are hard to bear. However, Stockdale's later life was happy.
When asking how he survived when he did not know the end of the story, Stockdale answered: “I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”
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Prisoners in Vietnam who were optimists didn't survive. They were saying 'We're going to be out by Christmas", "We're going to be out by Thanksgiving", and when it didn't happen, they eventually died of a broken heart.
The paradox is this: "You must never confu...
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There is no point where things will ease up. Success in a long-term survival situation means getting up with determination and fighting every day while not being entrapped by the previous day's failures.
The role of faith: Having a value system, a sense of identity, and a p...
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The Stockdale Paradox was made famous in Jim Collins's From Good to Great. It gives wisdom for how leaders can manage an unrolling crisis.
As CEOS in crisis, a central concern that keeps them awake is understanding complex and rapidly changing circumstances accurately and ...
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It is helpful to keep in mind that the crisis will affect individuals drastically. Each team member is likely to be in a different reaction phase to the crisis.
A leader's most important job in a crisis is to articulate the overarching purpose and connect each day's...
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Ask regularly at meetings: "What is something that doesn't fit in, that doesn't make sense?"
It isn't easy to know what data points matter during rapidly changing circumstances. Individuals can become hyperfocused on tasks without paying attention to the environmen...
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All disasters have common phases: Pre-impact, impact, and recoil.
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You may pin your hope on some other event or date when the crisis will come to an end, but the possiblity remains that you don't know how long the crisis will last.
During a crisis, accept what you cannot change and make the best of what is in your power. You can't change anything if you do...
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