adaptability – Page 6 – Reimagine. Strategy.

September 27, 2021May 2, 2022

Early Adopters Help Early Adapters

Have you ever “ridden the curve?”

If you’ve been in a tough university class, you’ll know what I mean. It’s an expression that refers to benefiting from a bell curve that pulls up your grade in order for the course to attain the average the professor is expecting.

In my daughter’s current law school experience, that same curve is used not only to bring some grades up, but to push some down. Pretty annoying if you are at the right-hand side of that bell.

June 28, 2021May 3, 2022

Sustainable Recharge

Different kinds of batteries charge in different ways. (Or so I’m told…please don’t ask me to explain this much further…!)

Our cell phone batteries gradually deplete over time. Plug in the charger for a few minutes and you gain a bit more battery life. Overnight, and you’re good for the next day.

In gasoline-powered cars, the battery recharges while we’re driving. Continue reading “Sustainable Recharge”

May 17, 2021April 15, 2024

The Ability to be Hopeful

One of my favourite opening questions to build connections in meetings (other than, “Share the most boring thing about yourself,” which is actually hilarious), is “Put one adjective in the Chat that describes how you are really doing today.” Sometimes, I’ll ask it twice, with the second round adding the cloak of anonymity, which tends to increase candour. I use it several times per week. Continue reading “The Ability to be Hopeful”

April 12, 2021May 3, 2022

Learn to Like or Like to Learn

Have you ever had a teacher you enjoyed so much, or a subject that captured your interest so fully, that you gave that homework your absolute all? I hope so. That experience suggests that we dive into learning what we like.

Building on that assumption, lately I’ve been exploring how we can enjoy change more. We all have to adapt — will we be more likely to do it with ease and enthusiasm if we like it? And therefore, are there ways to learn to relish it more? Continue reading “Learn to Like or Like to Learn”

January 25, 2021May 3, 2022

Adept at Adapting

The slowest pace of change you will ever experience for the rest of your life is happening right now.

~The Adaptation Advantage
(McGowan and Shipley 2020)

Did you sigh when you read that?

We know the pace of change is accelerating. We also know the need for continuous adaptation isn’t disappearing anytime soon.

And we’re getting some good practice at it! We’ve been invited and forced to adapt more in the past year than at any other time in our lives. Continue reading “Adept at Adapting”