Tom O'Shea Consulting™
Helping leaders shape the future and succeed in a VUCA World
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THE AGILE MODEL® = AN OPERATING MODEL FOR 2020 MARKET SPEED
“The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again.” This is a profound and true declaration from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking last year at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His next line might be equally important … “You are rightly anxious about…
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IS YOUR ORGANIZATION AGILE OR FRAGILE … WHAT’S YOUR BREAKING POINT?
Clearly, the FUTURE OF WORK involves building an agile, adaptive workforce which we describe as being Focused, Fast & Flexible. Hard as it is to imagine, the world is moving slower today than at any point in the future. As this article from Forrester Research suggests, the speed of automation and AI advances will make it…
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WORDS MATTER … ACTIONS MATTER MORE
WORDS MATTER! This is a phrase that I have used increasingly over the past three decades that I have been involved in leadership coaching, strategic consulting or as an operating executive running a business. This has been especially true the past few years! We all experience the excessive hyperbole, disingenuous social media banter and all too frequent occasions of “fake…
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2019 Wish List – Harmony & Agility
It seems that I have become almost labeled as a “harmonean” … i.e. someone who seeks and promotes harmony in organizations, families and relationships. Probably guilty as charged. This rang true over the holidays as I got a nice coffee-mug Christmas gift from my sister-in-law Mary Beth that celebrated that noble ideal. A few days…
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MOBILIZING FOR AGILITY – WHAT IS YOUR AQ?
Stephen Hawking was a visionary, futurist and one of the most intelligent humans ever. We are going to miss his provocative voice and insights. Surely, Stephen Hawking had a very high IQ and also recognized there are many dimensions of intelligence. Most of us are familiar with the notion of Emotional Intelligence or EQ and…