Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.
Serenity Prayer
Leadership often surfaces in a battle or pandemic, where the consequences of poor judgment are fatal. Critical self-management issues will surface for each of us in opportunity situations (upside risk) and high consequence situations (downside risk). Continue reading
The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.
Peter L. Bernstein – Risk Author
During COVID, we were all VUCANs(R). We all had to deal with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. This implies each of us is inherently a risk manager. Why? Maybe, it’s hard wired into our DNA. Look at the ‘fight or flight’ syndrome our ancestors had to live and decide by. The very survivability of our species was defined by this simple risk-based conundrum. Continue reading
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs – Apple Founder & CEO
Today’s uncertainty and disruption presents burning questions: How does a person manage or lead in VUCA time? Continue reading
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn – Author and Entrepreneur
Intentional Self-Management is the fundamental principle behind Working It and is really critical in COVID time. Intentional Self-Management is the art of taking responsibility and the science of taking control of your behavior, health, spirit, career, life, and work. Think about these key Intentional Self-Management questions: Continue reading
The author is retired from IBM and owns a research company that uses artificial intelligence to examine economic and technical issues. Unless people use computers for research, they may be unaware of two growing economic threats: 1) job losses caused by artificial intelligence; 2) Sea level rises due to global warming.
The author queried the Google Bard artificial intelligence tool about the calendar year that these two problems would become serious threats to the Florida economy, and the year 2050 was the answer to both questions. Continue reading