Great post,

I've long believed that nearly all the 'easy, single-solution' problems have been dealt with by the time you've honed your leadership chops.

After we have the basics in place, the really significant issues facing our organizations and society generally resist silver-bullets because they are part of larger systems with multiple interacting variables.

But changing those systems doesn't always lend itself to 'visible' leadership. It requires a real talent to maintain the level of analysis required, to make the complex understandable, but without over-simplifying to the point where people (or the leader) start clamoring for the silver-bullet. That's a tall order, but it's increasingly the order of the day for our most pressing challenges.

Thanks for the post, Bill.

Take care,

David