When I coach people who feel like their future is either too uncertain or too wide open to make their next decision, it’s amazing how much saying one ‘yes’ can help other things fall into place.
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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.
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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”Seek Variety in Uncertainty
In this second installment of thoughts on decision making in uncertainty, I’m turning my attention from the quantity of information that shapes our decisions to its quality.
How do we build confidence in the validity and relevance of the information we’re taking into account?
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