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. What is the difference, and what can leaders do to develop a pragmatic strategy in times of uncertainty?

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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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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today’s world. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

Successful CEOs remain agile and open to new strategies and ideas. Failing to Plan for Succession: CEOs who do not plan for their succession risk leaving their organizations in a state of uncertainty. Ethical leadership is not a choice but a responsibility for CEOs. Mistakes are a part of every leader’s journey, including CEOs.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

C HAOS and uncertainty are a part of life. It is about awareness, learning agility, and emotional self-regulation. We easily cling to what we know and what has worked for us in the past in the face of uncertainty, even though it is not working because it is comfortable and gives a sense of control. Are you making the most of it?

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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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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leaders must be agile and open to innovation. This mindset not only ensures resilience but also inspires teams to navigate uncertainty with confidence. They recognize that challenges are opportunities in disguise.

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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. By working closely with experienced coaches who deeply understand global markets and industry trends, leaders can cultivate a heightened sense of awareness and agility.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 21, 2022

Business always includes an element of unpredictability, and agility and flexibility are enduring requirements for successful leadership. These days, when most of us look ahead all we can see is uncertainty. A leader who is agile and flexible is comfortable with being uncomfortable. Embrace adaptability.

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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

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Subsequently, the enduring ethos of service translates into an unswerving commitment to helping clients capture value from uncertainty, creating optimal conditions for growth and prosperity. Leaders with this perspective have the foresight to design strategies and solutions in advance so their firms can persevere through future uncertainties.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 29, 2022

And, that means having an essential set of skills that includes collaboration, agility and foresight. Competing In The New World Of Work opens readers’ eyes to a bold new vision for the future of organizations, and how leaders can make those entities, inclusive, collaborative, resilient, empathic, adaptable, agile and poised for growth.

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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. Did the project plan prove to be an effective, flexible and agile road map for change and resource allocation? Adherence to project plan. Degree of business interruption.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 10, 2023

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

We are comfortable with what is predictable. This impacts our choices because we want to maximize the chances of success. Then, once in a while, we are thrown into situations where we have no control. It compels us to carve a way out and create a map as we go. We learn the most here.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. The post This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization appeared first on The Clemmer Group. Engage employees in the transition instead of herding them through it. Look beyond the “spot market” for talent. Collaborate to deepen the talent pool.

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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

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. U, for Uncertainty – controlling situations can feel impossible when the present is confusing and there are no guarantees for the future.

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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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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

No-one I speak to disputes the fact that we live in a VUCA world full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. They have learnt to be agile and adapt to their changing environments through sharing leadership and can teach us some key leadership skills to help us survive in these challenging times.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2019

Leaders who embrace change with an agile spirit thrive in every situation. Agile leaders know how to switch gears and view issues from different perspectives, and they provide an environment in which failure is part of success and decisions are made on the basis of informed judgment. Having comfort in uncertainty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Curiosity for Agility. You will need this to allow for optimal agility and to fully leverage the collective capability of employees throughout the organisation. As humans we become emotionally and intellectually stifled in times of uncertainty. Communicating Vision. This results in employees feeling threatened and disengaged.

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Lead from Within

MAY 24, 2023

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. They are also able to pivot and adapt to changing circumstances quickly.

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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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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Videos and Webinars] [Flexibility] Agility in an Era of Uncertainty and Disruption Find out how organisations and individuals can embrace agility to help them navigate these more uncertain times.

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Leadership and Change

JUNE 9, 2020

That’s agile and ready for innovation and change? A culture that embraces learning, and can handle uncertainty? 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? The four […].

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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. A crisis calls for agile leadership. Communicate the uncertainty. We simply don’t know.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

fear of the unknown, uncertainty, or failure that can accompany a change. clarity about agile ways of working that lead to success. There are a variety of reasons as to why leaders and team members resist change and these include: . an unwillingness to part ways with or release strategies that have led to previous success, .

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” 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. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Navigate through Change.

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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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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And they also recognize, and work to embrace, the uncertainty ahead after a decade of expansion and digital disruption on a grand scale. Related posts: License to Thrive: How to Foster Agility and Collaboration in Your Small Business.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 27, 2023

Videos and Webinars] [Flexibility] Agility in an Era of Uncertainty and Disruption Find out how organisations and individuals can embrace agility to help them navigate these more uncertain times.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

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. Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems.

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