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Create a Personal Strategy
I just finished reading Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber, which is a thoroughly excellent book about the modern world of work. According to...
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Why Strategy Fails (and what to do differently)
Many of us have the wrong idea about strategy. We think it's about workshops and documents, and then struggle to understand why everyone's still...
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Throw Your Raft In the Ocean
In an old Buddhist parable, a man is trapped on one side of a rushing river. On this side of the river, there is great danger and uncertainty; on the...
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Facilitate Meaning Through Experience
I've been lucky to spend some time with Optimal Workshop recently. One of the coolest things about their office is the large library they have in...
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5 Things You Should Know About Clarity
1. Clarity is the product of confusion. You don't understand what really matters until you've been distracted by the things that don't. You don't...
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How to trust people to do a good job: your delegation toolkit
In this article: Why delegation is hard Bring the energy Remove the niggles Boost clarity
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How to stick to your strategy throughout the year
Goals and dreams that seem exciting and doable when we prepare our strategy and plan can feel impossible a short time later once we're drowning in...
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15 signs of a strategist
In this article Your 4 minute strategy MBA We are all strategists 15 tell-tale signs of a strategist
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4 ways to move fast without breaking things
Hi, I'm Alicia McKay, a serial fast-moving thing-breaker. It's one of my best qualities - I execute ideas quickly and fix them as I go. I'm often on...
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How to Define Leadership In The Real World
Leadership is all the rage, but if you're sick of swimming in buzzwords, you might find yourself asking what it really means. Read on for a real...
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The Problem with Authentic Leadership
Authenticity is all the rage right now. Companies all over the world are proudly proclaiming how inclusive they are: "bring your whole self to work!"...
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Use your personal compass to make tricky choices
The average person makes 17,000 decisions a day. Most of those are easy, like what to have for breakfast or what time to leave for work, but some are...
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How to Make Habit Change Easier
Driving to Palmerston North a couple of years ago, a good friend of mine was explaining what they'd learned in yoga about habit change.
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Fast decisions in uncertain times
When our future is uncertain and our workload is high, we need leaders who can make big decisions fast. As we start the COVID leadership autopsies...
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How to be a strategist: 3 things to do today
I've been thinking again about how to answer the dreaded BBQ question - you know, the one: "So, what do you do for work?"
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Time to Change: 4 signs that you need to take action
In a recent Wednesday Wonder, I asked you how you know it's time to change something in your life - what the signs are, and how you know whether to...
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3 ways to rediscover purpose at work
I recently admitted to losing my mojo at work, and asked my wonderful Wednesday Wisdom readers how to find that sense of meaning again. WOW, you...
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3 Strategic Thinking Skills that Get You What You Want
One of the most exciting modules in the naMBA curriculum is when we talk about systems. We build our problem-solving skills by drawing on the work of...
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When to Try New Things: 4 options for creating change
This week, I've been thinking about the warning signals that something needs to change. It stems from some work I'm doing around change and...