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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

I began 2020 with a firm plan to execute a significant mid-career transition that involved voluntary movement out of a rewarding senior leadership role, relocating family, reuniting with my parents and (hopefully) start new assignments. We are far more adaptable, agile and resilient than we think. How to Learn More Effectively.

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How Strategic Agility Can Lead to Denial

Harvard Business Review

I was thinking how to respond to this when a second hand went up and the speaker said, something like, “Look, this is a problem, but it’s a very old problem. In the process, you demonstrate this problem absolutely haunts you, that you don’t know how to fix it, and that you don’t even know how to think about it.

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Why Companies Are So Bad at Treating Employees Like People

Harvard Business Review

Few disagree that the time is ripe for reimagining complex organizations so that they are more human and more agile. But existing models for how to make the shift seem to offer a choice between a rock and a hard place. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Take the thorny problem of developing people.