The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

That was the approach of a national media organization with their January 2nd leading headline story: “If you thought 2022 was bad, wait until you see what 2023 has in store for the economy.” Great leaders build great organizations that quickly adjust to “ black swan events.” Overcoming the Prediction Affliction.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JANUARY 5, 2020

Organizational agility is one of the key trends in almost all areas of management. Most of the available knowledge about when to apply an agile approach and how to apply it is related to product development. However, there is much more about organizational agility than the well-known product development tools such as SCRUM and Kanban.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. 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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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Change How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times by John P. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource. Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today’s world.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

“Uncertainty is here to stay. You must execute with agility and learn along the way to a sustainable, successful, high-growth path. Homkes: Growth through uncertainty is a loop, not a line. When a shock (either internal or external) hits, your organization moves into “triggered Survive.”

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

Lack of Adaptability: CEOs who are rigid and unwilling to adapt to changing circumstances can hinder their organizations’ growth. Successful CEOs remain agile and open to new strategies and ideas. Poor Communication: Ineffective communication can lead to misunderstandings and misalignment within the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One of the key challenges executives encounter is the need to strike a balance between traditional leadership approaches and the demand for more agile, adaptive leadership. Staying ahead of the curve and continuously adapting strategies to align with these shifts is a challenge that requires constant vigilance and agility.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. Here are a few key leadership lessons learned and steps you can take: Increase shared leadership throughout your entire organization around the critical concept that “leadership is action, not position.” Engage employees in the transition instead of herding them through it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

These leaders can adapt their strategies and thrive in diverse markets by embracing change and uncertainty. In an increasingly interconnected world, international coaching is an influential tool organizations can leverage to expand their global networks and drive success in today’s global business environment.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

These values stand as the bedrock, guiding employee actions and serving as the compass propelling the organization forward in the highly volatile business landscape of the 21st century. Each engagement is designed uniquely according to the organization’s specific needs and the individual’s distinct attributes.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Adaptability: Adaptability is the capacity to embrace change and uncertainty. Encouraging your team to be adaptable helps them stay agile and responsive to shifting circumstances, ensuring long-term success. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, this emotion is invaluable.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It may be hard to think about the future when the present is so challenging, but in times of great change and uncertainty it’s more important than ever to stay a step—or several steps—ahead in your preparation. These are the skills you should be cultivating now to be successfully as a leader for the future. A positive attitude toward change.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These firms’ expertise and extensive networks help organizations identify and attract top talent for critical leadership roles. Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 13, 2021

Organizational capability to develop and continually strengthen a change management muscle is required for success in a world characterized by uncertainty. Taking the time to capture lessons learned from transformational change is rarely done as organizations are coping with multiple, concurrent change. Adherence to project plan.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 29, 2022

Based on 2,000 interviews with leaders around the globe during the height of the pandemic, Competing In The New World Of Work , by Keith Ferrazzi , provides a blueprint for how to now capitalize on all we’ve learned during the pandemic so your organization can stay competitive in the future.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

This absence of a pre-existing framework can lead to a sense of uncertainty and heightened pressure. Additionally, the entrepreneur must constantly adapt to rapidly changing market conditions and emerging trends, which requires a high degree of agility and resilience.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2023

Change Management Digital transformations, economic uncertainty, and political tensions have led to much disruption and change. As such, change management remains a top priority for HR leaders, especially now, as organizations are seeing the fallout of too much change and uncertainty.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2014

When confronted by “unusual uncertainty” as Ben Bernanke put it , leaders need to be able to think and act adaptively. Leaders must fashion sound strategies for the enterprise, and the organization itself must be agile enough to adapt as required. It’s jazz — strategic improvisation.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

For many organizations, this idea can be difficult to come to grips with. Global events like these have severely disrupted the ways organizations and individuals function – a period that is often referred to as the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) World. However, change is not all doom and gloom.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 4, 2021

Resilience has been a watchword of the pandemic from both an individual and an organizational perspective, with the huge uncertainties caused by Covid forcing many of us to dig deep into our reserves. A new report from Cranfield Universities explores some of the organizational lessons we can learn from the past year. Building resilience.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

A “routine risk event” can be accompanied with fear, but it rarely evolves into panic as uncertainty is minimal. In some ways, we are operating blind in a crisis, and this often generates a great deal of uncertainty and fear. And finally, you need people who really understand your organization—how it works—how things get done.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Never Enough : A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning by Mike Hayes (Celadon Books, 2021) Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Blog Post ). He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

These changes necessitate a keen understanding of the current landscape to successfully navigate the complexities and ensure organizations’ continued operations and survival. Leadership transitions can pose a major challenge to any organization, especially in a turbulent environment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of Board Advisor Coaching in Shaping Success Board advisor coaching plays a critical role in shaping the success of organizations and their leaders. The result is a transformative impact on individual board executives and their organizations. Moreover, board advisor coaching can enhance communication and interpersonal skills.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

To reinvent itself, an organization must first uncover its hidden context. Only when an organization is threatened, losing momentum, or eager to break new ground will it conform its past and begin to understand why it must break with its outmoded present. fear of the unknown, uncertainty, or failure that can accompany a change.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” Today’s organizations face the unknown on a weekly basis. In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Navigate through Change.

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Lead from Within

MAY 24, 2023

They know how to leverage them to benefit their organization. Adaptability and flexibility: Along with being adaptable, great leaders are also agile. They are able to make quick decisions, respond to challenges, and navigate uncertainty with ease. Great leaders stay up-to-date on new and emerging technologies.

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Leadership and Change

JUNE 9, 2020

Do you aim for an open, inclusive, diverse, and positive culture in a flat organization, where all employees take ownership and feel responsible, proud, and motivated? That’s agile and ready for innovation and change? A culture that embraces learning, and can handle uncertainty? The four […].

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As dispersed teams move from being a stopgap measure to a new reality for many organizations, you need to seek out new ways to give direction, provide autonomy, and focus on outcomes while also building a strong, close-knit team. The relentless pace of change means people need to see leaders who model agility. The Leadership Gap.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The strategic leader knows the importance of stepping out of the busyness of business despite the temptation to go faster in times of economic uncertainty. How can you differentiate and elevate your organization to gain advantage and increase market share? Assess your organization. What are your competitors’ gaps or weaknesses?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

McKinsey cites 5 practices or mindsets that will enable leaders to bring their organizations through any turbulent times. From this diverse and open thinking comes an agility to take the best actions, as areas of clarity emerge. Leaders with the right temperament and character are necessary during times of uncertainty.

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Lead from Within

MAY 5, 2020

It may feel like a time to sit and wait, but in fact it’s a time to be proactive about the future—yours, your team’s, and your organization’s. Gather the sharpest minds and most insightful thinkers in your organization to discuss what the next months and years may look like. Lead with speed and agility. Brainstorm.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

Sid Mohasseb writes in The Caterpillars Edge that “to realize an improved future you must purposefully leave the past behind, and embrace the uncertainty ahead—constantly and without fear. We need a new and more agile approach. Align with Uncertainty —Adjust to the dynamic world around you. That is the caterpillar’s edge.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 3, 2014

This approach brings forth three considerations in behavioral intelligence, which when used in combination, will increase leadership’s ability to become more effective in dealing with crises, chaos and turbulence in organizations. Organizations that use this approach are destined to achieve five related outcomes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2018

When we are successful in aligning values and feelings, our teams become more agile and adept at handling any change they may face. In fact, that change brings with it an enormous amount of uncertainty. To be more specific, people fear the uncertainty that change always travels with. Your business is changing on a daily basis.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Change means uncertainty, which is an uncomfortable state for many. This approach promotes a balanced approach to change management so that flexible, agile interventions can be deployed as needed. Job insecurity.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That requires better strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. Leaders also increasingly work in resource-starved environments where demands seem much more significant. In short, today’s leaders need to be even more flexible and adaptive. My concern.

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