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Strategic Leadership 2021: Lessons from Strategy Class

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It manifests through helping shape a continually evolving organizational paradigm while operating effectively in the current environment. In part, this requires acknowledgment that the operating landscape is a dynamic environment in continuous change. Adjust activities to fit the current environment.

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How much do you invest in leadership development?

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They are more diverse, culturally, and generationally. Leaders also increasingly work in resource-starved environments where demands seem much more significant. Increasingly, leaders exist in diverse networks. That, particularly so, because of time demands, in highly-pressured working environments.

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6 Tips for Better Problem Solving

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Your team must operate in an environment of psychological safety. You’ll have more-robust discussions if you have diversity of opinion and viewpoint in the room. Consider different ways changes in the environment could affect your proposed solution. There are two requirements for productive, robust discussions.

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Where Have All the Questions Gone?

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Edmondson coined the term psychological safety to capture the degree to which people believe their environment is conducive to taking these risks. In safe environments, people are not paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake; they do not believe they will be penalized or people will think less of them for learning.

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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

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Companies have done this by requiring employees to have lunch with someone outside their organization, fostering diversity, and establishing the office as a community through deeper connections. Encouraging employees to interact with others inside and outside the company can allow the chance for new ideas, and serendipity, to spark.

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A Chance to Start Anew

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Like gardeners, we were placing our seedlings in an environment not conducive to their growth. Our evolutionary efforts to improve leadership practices were ineffective in an environment that liked the status quo. When we measure diversity, are we only counting those who look different while keeping them separate?

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Leadership is a Process!

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Tips for diagnosing the current environment. Work with a diverse, cross-functional group of people and create a list of potential opportunities. Help people see themselves operating in the new environment. Organizations and markets are complex and constantly changing. Make a list of all significant changes. Brainstorm.

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