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”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”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.
Continue reading “The Decision Itself”(The next instalment in our series called Learning to Love Liminality)
You get to learn to love liminality in your own way.
Here’s what I mean:
You don’t get a choice about whether to adapt to your new reality or not. But you do get a choice about how.
Continue reading “Pick Your Pathway”As I write this entry, it is about nine hours after the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the LA Dodgers in the 11th inning of seventh game of the World Series.
I’m a Blue Jays fan. Not a hop on the bandwagon, start-paying-attention-in-October fan, but a watch most games and know every player’s name by their faces fan — have been for years. Many a sweater has been knit cheering on these boys.
Continue reading “Go Jays, Even Today”