Tom O'Shea Consulting™
Helping leaders shape the future and succeed in a VUCA World
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Are You an Agility Player or Spectator?
We just finished watching another spectacular Masters golf tournament at the “shrine” of professional golf in Augusta, Georgia. My brother Dan and his wife Andrea had the pleasure of living in Augusta for fifteen years while Dan worked for a multi-media communications company whose founder is one of the members at Augusta National Golf Club…
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What are Your Agility Super Powers?
Flying Faster than a Speeding Bullet … Jumping Higher than the Tallest Building? What are your “agility super powers”? Sometimes it seems like we need to find Superman and his amazing superpowers to help us overcome the challenges of our VUCA world as it becomes more volatile, more uncertain, more complex and more ambiguous every day.…
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Super Bowl Agility – Focused, Fast & Flexible
WHAT A DIFFERENCE TWO YEARS CAN MAKE IF YOU ARE COMMITTED TO TEAM AGILITY! The Philadelphia Eagles just demonstrated the essence of team agility (being focused, fast and flexible) in their stout 41-33 Super Bowl victory over the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots led by Hall of Fame (to be) quarterback Tom Brady.…
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When the Water Level is Low – the Stumps will Show!
Agility Life Lesson #11 When the water level is low – the stumps will show! I think I first heard that insightful Southern saying over thirty years ago when I was a young thirty something HR Director learning my way around the business world. I was riding between Wrangler jeans plants with our Divisional Finance…
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Hurricane VUCA Tests and Inspires Our Agility
HARVEY, IRMA, JOSE, KATIA … they used to be just nice names but now are forever associated with widespread fear, disruption and potential devastation. In this “6-degrees of separation” world, most all of us know at least one person or family experiencing or anticipating the VUCA forces of one of these hurricanes. These massive natural…