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WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FUTURE PROOF YOUR ORGANIZATION?
One of my favorite thought leaders is DON SULL, very smart guy who has been a Strategy Professor at MIT, Harvard and London School of Business. One of Don’s many, many insightful sayings is we are living in an era of the FOG OF THE FUTURE which means we can’t see as far into the…
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THE TAO OF AGILE COLLABORATION – KEY TO SUCCESS IN 2021
We are now one month into the new chapter of 2021. 2020, the last chapter we all experienced earned numerous graphic descriptors – chaotic, disheartening, devastating, demoralizing, demeaning and even disgraceful at times. Take your pick and maybe add your own description to fit your experience. Let’s bury the pain but take away the important…
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CREATING YOUR AGILITY ROADMAP FOR 2021
Whew! 2020 is almost over and in a couple of days we will be starting a fresh new year filled with hopeful possibilities. We all are desperately seeking solace in how we feel everyday and yet, it is also time to rally the troops to create a superior capacity to face and navigate through the…
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RETHINKING CAPABILITY BUILDING FOR 2021
This week marks several milestones for me personally and guideposts for our collective future. It is Thanksgiving week in the year 2020. I am thinking that one thing we might all be thankful for … is that it means it is almost over! 2020 has been a year of aggravated assault on many fronts. It would…
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GENERATING CONFIDENCE – KEY TO UNITY AND AGILITY
CONFIDENCE! A powerful word that can speak to each of us on many levels – individually, collectively in our work teams or family units and even universally across a nation or world. That feeling of confidence (or lack thereof) can be the result of the context that we operate in such as periods of positive…
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KEYS TO AGILITY RESILIENCE IN COVID-19 WORLD
From our research and client experience across the past twenty years, we have discovered that there are five overarching drivers for building agility in leaders, teams and organizations. These critical focus areas represent a transformational roadmap that can help individual and corporate leaders mobilize and engage their teams to build the kind of adaptability, nimbleness…
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ACCELERATION WITH AGILITY!
Now more than ever … IT IS NOT THE BIG THAT EAT THE SMALL – IT IS THE FAST THAT EAT THE SLOW. Whether you are in the jungle of Africa or Wall Street, this statement rings louder and truer now more than ever. AGILITY MATTERS – and it’s time for you to figure out…
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THE PIVOT TO AGILITY IN THE AGE OF THE VUCAVIRUS™
“In the year 2020” … almost sounds like the old Zager and Evans song (In the Year 2525). Well, 2020 will no doubt become infamous for generations to come as the year of radical transformation and accelerated disruptive change globally. It is so amazing to think how relatively promising and comfortable life was at the…
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NAVIGATING VUCAVIRUS COMPLEXITY WITH AGILITY
In my March 10 blog, I introduced the notion that we are all experiencing the VUCAVIRUS in all aspects of our lives right now. We are all living the essence of viral volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and it looks like it will continue for some time ahead. During the past 30 days, my wife and I have lived a…
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2020 RESOLVE FOR FOCUS AND AGILITY
‘Tis the season for new year resolutions, promises and commitments. Seems like 2020 should be a great year to create new vision and focus on those things that really matter in your business and in our personal lives. The root word for resolution is RESOLVE – which means a “firm determination to accomplish something of meaning”. Living our…
Tom O'Shea Consulting™
Helping leaders shape the future and succeed in a VUCA World