Today's blog features part of the first chapter of my upcoming book, which I am aiming to complete by June 2026. I hope you enjoy it.

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I’m saying nothing new if I say there is change. And what happens when there is change?

Change means something new is happening. And whenever we have something new, which some people consider it as a problem. “What are we going to do?”

In the Chinese language, it’s claimed that the word “problem” and the word “opportunity” is the same. That’s why I coined the word “Opporthreats.” What does it mean? You have to decide. Do you want the new event to be a problem, or do you want it to be an opportunity? It’s up to you. Some people see only problems. Others see opportunities. But every problem is really an opportunity to learn something new. It’s an opportunity to solve a problem.

I once saw a quote: “A person who believes he is wise is ignorant and a person who believes he is ignorant is wise.” If you are constantly learning, then every problem becomes an opportunity to learn something new.

How do you solve a problem?

You have to decide what to do. But that’s not enough. That’s the deficiency of leadership training today. They teach how to make good decisions—marketing decisions, financial decisions. But they don’t teach how to implement them. For implementation, you need to deal with stakeholders. That’s called politics. But we don’t teach politics in business schools.

Once you implement a solution to a problem or exploit an opportunity, what happens? The implementation causes change. The solution created a new problem.

When will you have no more problems? When you stop changing. When you stop living.

To be a leader, you must manage change. But to manage change well and get exceptional results, your organization must be healthy, because energy is limited. If you want to expand your business and the company has no energy, nothing will happen. If your company is sick, no matter how good your plans are, the plans won’t work.

The purpose of leadership is to build a healthy organization that produces exceptional results.