Positioning: 🌍 Leading With Vision, Resilience, and Integrity: Lessons from Anne Leslie

27 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A leader explains his core lesson: positioning through no-regrets moves. Earning certifications costs time and money but never hurts your prospects, so they're safe bets that keep options open. The strategy treats life like chess, where each decision should create value regardless of how things change.

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for this leadership and success podcast. So first type of question: what is the greatest lesson you've learned so far? I think my biggest lesson is about positioning. I don't try and set a course and say that's the only way it's going to be, right? Life has taught me that very, very infrequently do my plans go according to plan. What I always try and do is think about positioning a bit like on a chessboard, which is, what can I do today that will be a no-regrets move no matter what? So we started off this conversation talking about certifications. For me, it would be a good example. You're never gonna lose because of doing a certification. It will maybe cost you time and money, but you're never gonna lose. For me, it's a no-regrets move. So I always think about positioning more than