A senior executive recently confided in me, “I wake up every morning already worried that we’re falling behind.” He elaborated, saying “The competition is so fierce. It feels like around every corner is a new startup with a new app or new tech that’s coming to out-innovate my team.” It’s hardly the first time I’ve been told this, and it …
The Future of Work: The Human Skills Required for 21st Century Leadership (Podcast)
Our CEO Lisa Christen was recently interviewed on the SalesPOP! podcast featuring John Golden about the future of work and how to be a future-fit leader. In the 20th-century, the business focus was on stability and uniformity. The 21st century is the complete opposite. Business in the 21st century is fast paced, digitalized, and innovative. Thus, in this Expert Insight …
How To Use Expansive Thinking To Unlock Your Team’s Collective Intelligence (Forbes)
The 21st century has seen the immense rise of teams in the workplace. It’s an obvious solution to handle the complex and fast-moving challenges we’re facing today; there simply are few problems we can solve alone anymore. But collaborative overload is emerging. The Harvard Business Review found this leads to anxious and overworked employees. Worse still, their research shows that often only 3%-5% of …
5 Ways to Move Forward When Facing Ambiguity
Ambiguity is an (inevitable) part of our everyday life, causing many of us stress, distress and uncertainty. Instead of being paralyzed by fear, here are 5 ways to instantly embrace the unknown and move forward with certainty. John* was overwhelmed by all of the ambiguity he faced at work. The pace of work moved far too quickly and he …