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Uncertainty Is Inevitable. How Can We Navigate Through It?
7min
Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of our lives, whether we like it or not. The future is always uncertain, and we never know what lies ahead. However, how we deal with uncertainty is what sets us apart from others. It can be daunting but can also be an opportunity for growth and development. In a […]
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The Power of Changing Your Industry, Your World, and Your Own Habits
7min
Change could certainly be considered a top candidate for the word that best sums up what we’ve all experienced over 2020 and 2021. Our world changed, turned upside down by a rampant pandemic. Businesses and industries were transformed. And our personal habits were forced to change, first when social distancing became the norm and then […]
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The Art of Instigating Change
Convincing others to make a breakthrough change that you know is needed is not easy. This Executive Edge points out some key elements that should be part of your effort to initiate a successful change, such as: establishing the need for change, how to communicate the change, what kinds of tensions and resistance you’ll come […]
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Drive Company Reinvention
Businesses who choose to cling to the past may be choosing to become obsolete. Change has become essential in order to stay profitable. This Executive Edge considers what it will take from you and your employees to reinvent your company: to make room for continuous innovation, constantly make changes, build and sustain motivation to lead […]
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Challenge the Status Quo With New Ideas
Challenging the status quo is in effect challenging what you already know and do – it’s challenging business as usual. This Executive Edge considers shaking up the status quo by letting go of certain things, embracing change, sparking creativity, encouraging idea-sharing and cultivating new ideas. To avoid having your business become obsolete and side-stepped by […]
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Leverage Disruption for New Growth
When technology or a product is disruptive, it creates a new market that can completely displace a traditional market or system. But the silver lining is that disruption releases new value and presents opportunities for survival and sustainable growth. This Executive Edge examines the importance of knowing how to leverage disruption for new growth.
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Build a Stronger Company
Organizations that are succeeding are on top of what’s happening around them and are actively seeking to adapt ahead of the curve and ahead of trouble. In this issue of Executive Edge, we look at ways that companies can build their strengths including accepting failures, adapting quickly, resisting aging, understanding co-innovation and addressing the company’s […]
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Encourage Adaptability by Leading It
Increasingly leaders must have the skills to see when their businesses need to adapt and then, know what adaptation is needed. They need to get ahead of the curve and be nimble enough in their leadership to move forward ahead of trouble. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on the critical idea that leaders […]
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How to Champion Change
Every leader who wants to keep his or her organization competitive and focused will have to know how to accelerate change. Part of the responsibility of moving an organization forward is to prevent a backslide into the old, less productive status quo. Another piece of change management is being aware of how changing a job […]
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Embrace the Power of Leading Change
Handling change may be one of the strongest tests of leadership. In this Edge, we offer guidance for helping people move through four common zones of adopting change, how to anticipate and plan for setbacks that can affect successful implementation of change, how to build organizational consensus for change, and how to address the fears […]
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