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Harvard Business School professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria wrote a fascinating book called In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century.¹⁶ In it, they chronicled the stories of some of the most successful business leaders of the twentieth century and found a close relationship between context and leadership. Based on their analysis of hundreds of leaders, they arrived at several key conclusions:

1 When it comes to leadership, context matters. In the end, long-term success comes down to awareness and sensitivity to context and business environment.

2 Leaders and companies do not fail or succeed in a vacuum. The interplay among the context, business environment, and how leaders respond is critical to success.

3 Leaders must understand their emerging context, for it impacts their ability to adapt and spot opportunities that may fuel growth and create value for shareholders and society.

These conclusions point to the need for you as a leader to take the time to understand the context in which you are leading. This is something my teams and I have always helped leaders do in our leadership development programs. Every program is rooted in the current and emerging context of the leaders we work with. We help them learn the skills they need to pay attention to their operating environment and appreciate how they need to step up and lead in times of change. The bottom line is that you need to be clear on what is coming at you, how to make sense of it, and how to lead your team or company through it all.¹⁷