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Change on the Run: Surviving Workplace Uncertainty

Leading Blog

I F THE ADAGE “the only constant is change” described our pre-pandemic lives, “the only thing you can rely on is uncertainty” expresses our current realities. Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. Why Uncertainty is Difficult.

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How to Look Forward with Confidence in Uncertainty

Lead from Within

I find that it’s especially helpful in times of struggle, difficulty and uncertainty—which makes it perfect for the world today. Everything can be taken from us, including all our freedoms, and in times of uncertainty it’s easy to feel that we have no options. These words say so much. But we always have a choice.

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How Chance Influences Our Career

The Horizons Tracker

The role of chance A second study , by Audencia Business School in Paris, also found that chance plays a considerable role in our careers. The majority of the participants (62.17%, or 424 respondents out of 682) reported having experienced a chance event that significantly influenced their careers.

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From Today to Tomorrow: Ensuring Continuity through Strategic Succession

N2Growth Blog

Another crucial aspect is building a pool of talented individuals closely connected to an organization’s talent management and development strategies. Succession contingency planning ensures an organization’s survival and growth during strain, uncertainty, or sudden change.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2024

Leading Blog

These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him.

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Coaching Can Help Leaders Manage Their Emotions

The Horizons Tracker

Events, such as career shocks, can be either positive, in the sense of gaining an unexpected promotion, or negative, in the sense of losing one’s job. The role of the coach is to help bring the executive to a state in which they can better make sense of and manage their emotions. Emotional responses.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

It Matters More Than You Think by @PhilCooke The Death of The Manager Role Is Predicted Yet Again. Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own.