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How to Help Teams Become Comfortable with Uncertainty

LSA Global

We know from our change management simulation data that most leaders are challenged by unpredictable situations where the future is uncertain, and the stakes are high. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. Numerous peer-reviewed studies provide evidence that communication effectiveness is a strong predictor of leadership performance. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Save the silver bullet – a shameless piece of self promotion!

Ben de Haldevang

But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”! With your choice of case studies and the points made in the interviews, you have managed to conceptualize transformation without turning your book into an obscure PhD thesis.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90%. Part of the issue is how organizations view the human aspect of the closing date, which is usually treated as the end of the transaction, when it’s really just the start of change. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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How Leaders Can Remove Barriers to Organizational Change

LSA Global

The Challenge of Organizational Change. Change management consultants have long sought to remove barriers to organizational change. With change a constant for most companies, flexible and agile organizations that can adapt to new challenges and new constraints will succeed in the long term. Lack of Power.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business. This will increase digital agility, make them better able to respond to the changes in customer demands and remain competitive.

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Case Study: How Much Should a New CEO Shake Things Up?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. That’s the agile way to do it.” “They’re good.