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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

The January 2011 issue of my newsletter featured a selection of hilariously inaccurate predictions about 1993 made in 1893, a few funny failed predictions from the 1400s to 2000s, and a short list of insanely wrong comments (e.g. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change.

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Leadership “Moment of Truth” for FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi

Michael Lee Stallard

One such moment for Carles Puyol, former center back and club captain of FC Barcelona, occurred in 2011 when he led the team to the Champions League title. On June 6, FC Barcelona will return to the Champions League final for the first time since 2011. Messi’s Moment. Wearing the captain armband will be superstar forward Lionel Messi.

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How to Accelerate Team Learning

QAspire

In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. I wrote a post in 2011 that outlined 10 actions for leaders to create learning organizations and further outlined Three Rituals For Constant Alignment And Learning that just aligns with some of the ideas suggested in this post.

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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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12 Critical Competencies For Leadership in the Future

QAspire

In a world that is often described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and ambiguous), there are major tectonic shifts that demand a new mindset of leadership. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Communication and clarity are the currencies of effective leadership.

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The Heart of a Warrior

N2Growth Blog

They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion. It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times.

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