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2022: Go With The Flow

QAspire

Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious. Just as I am writing this, I get notified of a new post from my friend Simon Terry who shares the theme of going with the flow and writes: Water flows and always finds its level. – Simon Terry.

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2022: Go With The Flow

QAspire

Like a river rapid that quickly finds its ways around the boulders, going with the flow means being adaptive, agile and curious. – Simon Terry That sums it up perfectly. Our corporate conditioning as well as constant onslaught of information disables us in this regard. We merely choose how we arrive there.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Simon Tyler ( Speaker, Coach, & Author ) Authenticity - knowing who you are, what is important to you, what you stand for and being comfortable in all of that. EQ/C-IQ Agility is necessary for a leader to be successful in this ever changing disruptive world especially with 5 generations in the workplace. Stay human.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

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3 Priorities for Leaders Who Want to Go Beyond Command-and-Control

Harvard Business Review

Leaders increasingly need to model traits that reflect the values and culture of the organization in which they operate. Command-and-control isn’t a fading leadership model simply for cultural reasons, but because modern organizations must respond in real time to fast-changing consumer preferences and agile competitors.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

To act on this opportunity, the company encouraged each employee, on a volunteer basis, to make his or her “unique contribution” to improving the agility of the supply chain. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.