“Hitting a baseball is very hard. Gaining foreign adversaries’ trust so that they betray their country for the benefit of ours is also highly complex and difficult. Hitting .300 will keep you on the top of both professions. That is the magic number. But the key to achieving that magic number is coming to terms with the reality that you must experience and understand failure.”

Unlike some leadership books, Marc Polymeropoulos’s first outing is not a love letter to his own reflection. On the contrary, one of Clarity in Crisis‘s greatest strengths is its clarity about a harder element of the human experience: the reality that we are all flawed.