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
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy – President of the U.S.
In VUCA time, the expression ‘what got you here – won’t get you there’ is particularly applicable. First of all, we don’t know what ‘there’ is in terms of the ‘new normal’. Second, we don’t know the new things we need to do or learn to do to get us somewhere new. I like books that ‘tell it like it is.’ No sugar coating risks and bad behaviors. Marshall Goldsmith – the executive coach – came up with 20 pre-COVID career and work killers: Continue reading
Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith.
Cheryl Strayed – Writer
Millennial workers from 18 to 37 are twice as likely to be uncomfortable with VUCA. Dictionary.com says “the world Gen Z has inherited is one of unprecedented chaos.” (1) Millennials and Gen Z workers may be the new precariat. Continue reading
Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.
Keven Maney – Columnist & Designer Continue reading