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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

But when I’m leading a team with tight timelines, I get stressed and feel like I don’t have time to go slow. So many of these leaders increase their workload and stress as they load ever more monkeys on their back s. In projects where I am not the leader or where timing isn’t tight, this isn’t insurmountable.

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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

Smart people underperform as Attention Deficit Trait ( ADT ) dumbs everyone down and ups stress and conflict. Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. Meeting Expectations: What’s Your Learning Agility? Goals and priorities are confusing and conflicting. High cynicism and mistrust.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business Review

The World Health Organization describes stress as the “ global health epidemic of the 21st century.” ” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Also, a recent large-scale, longitudinal survey of over 1.5

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How Meditation Benefits CEOs

Harvard Business Review

” For example, one of Berlin’s clients, a Fortune 25 company, has integrated mindfulness techniques into its high potentials program with the goal of creating agile and flexible mindsets as a foundation for leadership. Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Investors, attributes his ability to invest wisely to his meditation practice.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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The Capabilities Your Organization Needs to Sustain Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Second, they try things and learn by discovery, demonstrating creative agility. The kind of collaboration that produces innovation is more than simple “get-along” cooperation. The sparks that fly can sting or, at minimum, create tension and stress. Creative agility. Not everyone wants to do that all the time.

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High Impact Thinking for #Management - Updated for 2012

Management Craft

Managers need the support and cooperation of those they work with. We don’t get to talk trash even if it relieves stress. When you show your teams what agility looks like in action, you are showing them how to work and thrive in today’s times. Management is a social act. It occurs in conversations. We don’t get to be disengaged.