Leaders cannot anticipate every specific situation—not when the world is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). Knowing how to lead in a VUCA environment doesn’t mean making infinite contingency plans. Instead, it means having flexibility, solving problems, driving change, and handling the unknown. Strategic leadership in the face of VUCA means being versatile when your plan…
Being a leader means being a learner, no matter where we are on our leadership journey. Whether we are a CEO leading a multi-national business, an entrepreneur managing a startup, or a freelancer just leading ourselves, we all have areas for development. That is why leaders need a growth mindset. But we cannot improve everything at once, so how do we identify where we need the most development…
In the quest for professional success, people often wonder which careers or industries might best suit their personalities. Research suggests that personality-industry alignment—that is, the match between an individual’s personality characteristics and a specific industry’s requirements and demands—plays a significant role in shaping an individual’s professional journey.…
You may be able to regulate your emotions without suppressing or controlling them. This can benefit your relationships, mood, and decision-making. The ability to experience and express emotions is more important than you might realize. As the felt response to a given situation, emotions play a key part in your reactions. When you’re in tune with them, you have access to important knowledge…
On December 9th, 1968, a research project funded by the US Department of Defense launched a revolution. The focus was not a Cold War adversary or even a resource rich banana republic, but rather to “augment human intellect” and the man driving it was not a general, but a mild mannered engineer named Douglas Engelbart. His presentation that day would be so consequential that it is now…
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