5 Ways Organizations Can Pivot with Purpose

by Dana H. Born, Marc Correa and Bill George

December 3, 2025

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Summary.

Unpredictable. That is the defining condition of the world today. Leaders, especially CEOs, are grappling with the hard truth that the models, forecasts, and strategic assumptions they once relied on no longer apply. Today’s most urgent leadership challenges are fast-changing, interconnected, and largely shaped by human behavior.

Dana H. Born , PhD, is a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General and former Dean of the Faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She is a Senior Associate and Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, where she focuses on authentic and moral leadership development and a Senior Distinguished Fellow for The HOW Institute for Society.

Marc Correa , PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Esade Business School (Ramon Llull University), where he served as Dean of Executive Education. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, and his research focuses on authentic leadership, tension and paradox leadership, and leadership learning and education.

Bill George is an Executive Education Fellow at Harvard Business School, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and bestselling author of True North.

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5 Ways Organizations Can Pivot with Purpose

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