Which stage are you actually in?

Almost every executive walks the same three stages, in the same order. Frustrated. Exhausted. Apathetic.

The trouble is that each stage is blind to the one after it — and the very thing that fixes the stage you're in is what creates the next one. That is why capable leaders keep solving, with enormous effort, the wrong problem.

Fifteen statements below. Don't analyze them. Just notice which ones sting.