I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey – Educator & Writer Life and work are all about making smart choices – specifically risk based, problem solving (RBPS) and deciding (RBDM). And quite frankly, it sucks for most VUCANs. It’s not easy in COVID time. Why? Because many …
What COVID tools and practices work from around the world? Will these practices be voluntary or required? Will there be widespread temperature checks, CCTV monitoring, rapid COVID test, contact tracing, cell phone QR codes, digital certificates, real time location approvals, which are used in Asia but in the west infringe on personal freedoms? All of …
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles Eliot – President Harvard University Decision making in COVID time is changing. Fashionable acronyms are coined for today’s dominant decision making paradigms, which seem to be fear and anxiety based. Let’s look at a few: FOBO, the Fear Of Better Options, means that VUCANs can’t …
Here’s a test? When you look at a work, job, or career opportunity during COVID, do you see calamity or opportunity. Is the glass half full or half empty? Or, do you want to design a new glass container and fill it with your fluid of choice? The latter is the key question and attribute of …
We have a strategic plan. It’s called ‘doing’ things. Herb Kelleher – Founder Southwest Airlines I personally don’t like the word ‘execute.’ It’s negative. It implies a very unforgiving downside. However, get used to it in COVID time. You’ll be hearing it often. A little story may help explain the term. Most consultants, managers, and …
Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer VUCAN leadership often surfaces in a battle or pandemic, where the consequences of poor judgment are fatal. We believe that critical self management issues will surface for each of us in opportunity situations (upside risk) and …
Quick question: What do you think is more important to career success – people skills or technical skills? Both as it turns out. Bell Labs studied emotional quotient, the EQ, and found it is as important to your long-term success as your IQ. IQ, the Intelligence Quotient, was once prized to be the key to career success. So, …
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs …
There’s no such thing as time management; there’s only self management. Rory Vaden – Self management Guru and Writer VUCAN managers don’t manage in terms of telling a worker what to do, when, and how to do it in COVID time. VUCAN workers are assumed to know their jobs as well as be able to self manage. …
Let’s look at Paradigms again. Paradigms can be defined in terms of a game. A game has a set of rules, which participants must follow. The game has boundaries such as a basketball court, baseball park, or tennis court. The game requires specific skills to thrive and practices to compete well. A professional baseball player runs …