Personal Development
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Strategic Agility
❝STRATEGIC AGILITY❞ is the ability to IMPROVE PERFORMANCE— not just survive, but thrive— AMID DISRUPTION. MICHAEL WADE and others share in last HBR “Special Spring ’22” 𝐒𝐈𝐗 PRINCIPLES to Build Your Company’s Strategic Agility 1️⃣ Prioritize SPEED over perfection 🚅 Opportunities come and go quickly during a crisis, so organizations need to be ready and WILLING TO ACT QUICKLY, even if they sacrifice quality and predictability in the process. 2️⃣Prioritize FLEXIBILITY over planning ↔️Strategy is often taught in business schools as a cascade of choices around where to play and how to win. However, in a crisis, a strategic plan can easily become an anchor that locks an organization onto a path…
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Doing less
The role of business leaders in an ADAPTABLE ORGANIZATION has to be reviewed according to Joerg Esser (impressive profesional profile!) 👨🏫 In traditional organizations, the person at the top focuses on making operational decisions, especially the big ones 🤔 In ADAPTABLE organizations, the leader focuses on FACILITATING the right environment. 😌 How can you know if you’re currently doing too much, getting overlyinvolved in the nitty-gritty of operations? 😥 Here’s a quick exercise he use that will show you whether you’re holding the reins too tight and failing to allow emergence to work its magic ✍🏽Count the number of decisions you make in the course of a day. If you’re constantly…
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Your walking boots
🥾“Your walking boots / 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝔸ℂ𝕋 \ are SEEN and EVALUATED by those in your environment each and every day.” ✏️The Swiss Army Knife for Leaders – Gabriel Anthonio
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Milestones
🥊 When Mike Tyson was asked by a reporter whether he was worried about Evander Holyfield and his fight plan he answered; ❝EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH❞ ⚓️MILESTONES BRING REALITY TO A STRATEGIC PLAN. Milestones are what you use to convert your business strategy and tactics into ACTION 🎬. If the business doesn’t meet milestones as it executes the plan, leaders have to reconsider whether they’ve got the right strategy after all 🤔 A good STRATEGIC PLAN is ADAPTABLE 🎋Once-a-year planning can be dangerous, especially in short-cycle businesses where markets won’t wait on your planning schedule. So, PERIODIC INTERIM REVIEWS 👨🏼🏫 can help you to…
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Most Valuable Players
❝The MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS are never finished. They are continually ADAPTING, ADJUSTING to hit the mark.❞ ⭐️IMPACT PLAYERS ADAPT to changing conditions faster than their peers because they interpret new rules and new targets as opportunities for learning and growth 🧠 While they appreciate affirmation and positive feedback, they actively seek CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND CONTRARY VIEWS AND USE IT TO RECALIBRATE AND REFOCUS THEIR EFFORTS ⚓️ While others attempt to manage and minimize change, impact players are LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO CHANGE 🦅 To embrace the habits of these impact players:📍Seek guidance – Managers respond well to coachable employees. Impact players ask for feedback, not validation, and INCORPORATE CRITICISM into their…
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Flow Theory
🏕Indians in the Shuswap region of Canada🍁, were settled down in a place filled with resources, and life was good, and they had everything they needed… but the elders 👴🏼 would make sure that the entire village would just pack up and move to a new location every 25 or 30 years 🧐 This way, they knew they would have NEW PLACES TO EXPLORE🌲and hunt 🎣 and fish and NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME… 🤔 😩You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO CHALLENGING, otherwise you’ll have ANXIETY.🥱You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO EASY FOR YOUR SKILLS either, otherwise you’ll be BORED. It’s when you balance these…
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Self-love
✍️ “L’homme est un mécanisme que l’amour-propre remonte chaque jour.” “Man is a mechanism that self-love builds up every day.” De Louis Dumur
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Foundations of traditions
🏯Every 20 years, locals tear down the Ise Jingu grand shrine, only TO REBUILD IT ANEW 🤔 📜They have been doing this for around 1,300 years. The process of rebuilding the wooden structure every couple decades helped to PRESERVE the original architect’s design against the otherwise eroding effects of time ⛩ There is also a belief of the DEATH and RENEWAL OF NATURE and the IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS 🎋 In addition to reinvigorating spiritual and community bonds, the tradition KEEPS JAPANESE ARTISAN SKILLS ALIVE. It also involves the wish that Japanese TRADITIONAL CULTURE should be TRANSMITTED to the next generation 🎎. The renewal of the buildings and of the treasures has…
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It pays to pause
🤔 The situation is not always as cut-and-dried as it first appears‼️ When volunteers are shown a film of a driver CUTTING ACROSS LANES 😠 they will almost unanimously apportion BLAME. They will infer that he is SELFISH, IMPATIENT and OUT OF CONTROL🤬. And this inference may turn out to be true… After all, the driver may have had the sun in his eyes. He may have been swerving to avoid a car that had veered into his lane. In fact, there are many posible mitigating factors. To most observers LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN, THESE DO NOT REGISTER 😵💫. It is not because they don’t think such possibilities are irrelevant,…
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The bubbles floating
📱When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to STEVE JOBS for his approval 😓 Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big 😵💫 The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to make it any smaller.Jobs was quiet for a moment. Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium 🐠, and DROPPED THE IPOD IN THE TANK💦. After it touched bottom, BUBBLES floated to the top 🥸 ❝Those are air bubbles❞ he snapped. ❝That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.❞…
