The Solomon trap: When brilliant minds build flawed logic
This opinion piece uses the biblical story of King Solomon to illustrate how leaders often fail by making incremental, logical compromises that eventually undermine their core strategic goals. It argues that wisdom without consistent discipline leads to organizational collapse.
We all know King Solomon for his wisdom. If he were a modern CEO, he would be the visionary founder featured on every business magazine cover: the legendary entrepreneur who inherited a stable organization from his father, David, and rapidly scaled it into a golden conglomerate of unprecedented wealth, complete with global maritime trade routes, state-of-the-art infrastructure and gold-plated real estate.
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