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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

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How often do you stop what you’re doing to step back, pull up and look at the patterns of what’s going on in your environment, and ask questions like what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next? Doing that puts them ahead of competitors who don’t by identifying new opportunities to leverage and avoiding being blindsided by emerging trends.

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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

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Assuming that you want to create a work environment that is more adult-to-adult than parent-child, here are some markers you can use as a guide and reality check: To be honest, when I look over that table, I think the markers in the adult-to-adult leadership column are a pretty good running start on a parenting checklist as well.

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Eight Executives Offer Their Best Advice on Building a Team of Go-To People

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Here’s the best advice from each of the eight executives on how to build a go-to team: Create a Safe Environment. Step one is to create a safe environment for the team. Then coach the team to find best solutions by embracing dynamic tension and bold creativity.”.

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A Framework for Leadership Action in the VUCA of the Pandemic

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Army War College at the end of the Cold War, VUCA is a framework that leaders can use to think about how to respond in environments that are: V olatile, U ncertain, C omplex, and A mbiguous. Uncertainty – Uncertain environments are typically ones where there aren’t a lot of historical precedents to draw on for comparison and guidance.

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What’s Better for You? Peer Coaching or Mentoring?

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That gives them enough context to be familiar with each other’s environments but not so deep into the same environment that it becomes easy to get lost in the weeds of everything that’s going on day in and day out. It works well when the peer coaches are in the same organization but not in the same exact function.

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How Sales Leaders Can Reclaim the Advantage in a Virtual World

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The National Geographic reminds us that “in evolutionary theory, adaptation is the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their environment.” The winners are quickly figuring out how to adapt. The first of three types of adaptation is behavioral. That’s what Josh has done so well.

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Some ?What If?? Questions You Should Be Asking Right Now

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What changes would we have to make or could we make to sustain and grow our business in a socially distant operating environment? What do we know about the current environment that leads to those conclusions? What else could we do to flex? What if we stopped doing 50% of the things that we’ve always done? What would they be?