I’m writing this from Nairobi, Kenya.
In my hotel room, the body lotion mounted on the bathroom wall looks like this:
Continue reading “Revise the Proverb”Changing Our Mind
What is something you used to think?
Not as a toddler, but as an adult. Something you used to believe, that you’ve changed your mind about?
Unlearning is a key skill in boosting our adaptability. I think of it as updating our operating system and/or decluttering. It’s removing ways of thinking and being that likely served us well at one point, but don’t anymore. It usually accompanies curiosity and mental flexibility in people — they’re interested in learning and can lean into the grey zones of life rather than seeing things as black and white. And being good at it is way harder than it sounds. We tend to cling to our ways of knowing for longer than they actually serve us.
Continue reading “Changing Our Mind”Surfing Lessons
I don’t know how to surf.
But as a metaphor for adaptability and responding in uncertainty rather than waiting for calm seas — that I do know something about.
I’ve recently been upgrading my adaptability intelligence coaching through AQai. We’ve been talking about Change Uncertainty (Cu) as a dimension of adaptability, and why it matters. It’s exciting because it is so very relevant.
Continue reading “Surfing Lessons”Learning to Surf
About six months into the COVID lockdown of 2020, I remember a fellow facilitator saying to me, “I don’t do digital meetings.” My cheeky response? “Happy retirement.”
Lately I’ve been writing about making decisions in uncertainty — about paying attention to the quantity and quality of the information we’re gathering, and to the nature of the decision itself. Today I’m thinking about the timing of decisions.
Continue reading “Learning to Surf”The Decision Itself
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written about the quantity and quality of information that goes into decisions during times of overload and uncertainty. Today’s focus is on the nature of the decision itself.
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