Working in a VUCA World
If you have attended a leadership workshop in the last few years, you have probably heard of the “VUCA” concept. You hear it from a facilitator, or read it on a PowerPoint slide, and you see people nodding knowingly…but what does it mean? VUCA is an acronym consisting of four factors that can describe the […]
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- Jul, 06, 2020
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Jul, 06, 2020
Changing Your Internal Processes
You can innovate better and be more flexible when your different business functions work well together. What have you learned about your processes for sharing information and supporting each other? The pandemic has probably revealed a lot about what works and what doesn’t. What technology worked well for meetings and conversations and information sharing? Some […]
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- Jul, 02, 2020
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Will Relationships With Customers Change?
What have you learned from the pandemic about selling your products and working with your customers? It wasn’t that long ago that people said, “Here in Asia, you have to go see your customer in person; they don’t want a phone call, or even a video call.” Well, circumstances have changed that. So, has the […]
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- Jun, 29, 2020
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How Will Your Working Culture Change?
Whatever your future working culture is going to be, it probably will not be the same as it was. Look at the way your people work together to get things done and see what you can learn from the way you have been organized. Consider three elements of your work (though you may have more, […]
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- Jun, 25, 2020
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Get Inputs From Your People
We have said before that you should try to hold onto your people during the pandemic. Why does this matter? In part, because their corporate knowledge is vakuable, and you don’t want to lose that by sending them out the door. So if you’re going to keep them, you might as well use that knowledge. […]
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- Jun, 22, 2020
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