Welcome to the first of a short series of posts on decision making in uncertainty.
I spend a lot of time helping leaders navigate the “messy middle,” personally and organizationally. Liminal spaces are ideally ones we visit temporarily, but the feelings of uncertainty we experience while there seem to be more pervasive right now.
Continue reading “Decision Making in Uncertainty”I’m no builder. But I do understand that builders use scaffolding temporarily to help them reach hard-to-reach places and to keep themselves safe. They remove it when they don’t need it anymore, but they also wouldn’t dream of building something big and new without it.
Continue reading “Build Some Scaffolding”As we near the end of the year, and this series on learning to love liminality, I want to land in a highly pragmatic place: all of us are in between things all the time, so we might as well learn to like it here!
Transitions are the norm, not the exception. In fact, we’re almost always navigating more than one at a time. In a recent study I commissioned with 1,219 midlife participants across Canada and the US, 40% reported being in the midst of more than one transition.
Continue reading “In Good Company”People in the messy middle of transition often describe feeling like they are trying to see through fog or swim through mud. Yuck. No wonder learning to love liminality feels like a tall order!
Two reminders I find helpful at this stage:
Continue reading “Paralyzed by Possibility”(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”