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What Happens if You Try Taking Risk & Dealing With Uncertainty?

Mills Scofield

This has been one of the best decisions throughout my time at Brown because it gave me permission and room to be okay with uncertainty, be okay with taking risks, and be okay with using my imagination. Quickly, Deb convinced my perfectionist-self to take this class pass/fail -- and NOT just because it was my senior spring.

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How The Best Leaders Are Already Planning Past The Crisis

Lead from Within

Brainstorm. You can empower people through uncertainty if you hold true to the values and priorities that drive your team’s mission and communicate those values and priorities clearly and often. 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.

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EMERGENCE – What is Now Needed for Leadership Teams to Become High Performance Teams

Strategy Driven

In the beginning of the pandemic many companies experienced immediate slowdowns and uncertainty going from a growing company to a shrinking company. The following are components that are critical to growing and developing leadership groups into high-performance leadership teams. High-performance leadership teams develop in stages.

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HR in 2024: Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce Through Bold Leadership

HR Digest

Flexible pods for focused work, vibrant hubs for brainstorming, and cozy nooks for quiet contemplation – each space designed to match the needs of the moment. As economic uncertainty swirls, employers have a critical role to play in easing the anxieties of their older employees and ensuring their financial security.

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Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong

Harvard Business Review

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s.

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What if You Tried Risking It?

Mills Scofield

This has been one of the best decisions throughout my time at Brown because it gave me permission and room to be okay with uncertainty, be okay with taking risks, and be okay with using my imagination. Quickly, Deb convinced my perfectionist-self to take this class pass/fail -- and NOT just because it was my senior spring.

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Growing a Startup: 3 Guys & a Bear

Mills Scofield

The idea was to live in relative isolation while developing a platform for businesses to engage customers and collect their feedback. After these discussions we'd spend time coding and let these phantom users guide the development. The problem with this sort of thinking is that you aren't your user.