My clients are high achieving people who are used to mastering most things quickly and being good at what they do.
When they are in the midst of transitions, personally or organizationally, they are often surprised by two things:
Continue reading “You’re Not Doing It Wrong”If you are navigating some choppy waters right now, the first thing you probably need to do is stop to get your bearings.
When we’re in a challenging season, our thoughts are often moving at warp speed. What we most need is to slow things down.
Ironically, our brain is likely screaming at us to do the opposite.
Continue reading “Too Busy Not to Stop”When you are leading in uncertainty or navigating a transition, it’s common to describe the experience as driving through fog. Jim Collins uses this metaphor in his recent book to describe the experience after people — even very accomplished people — live through a ‘cliff’ moment in their lives. The transition or crisis is usually followed by an extended period of fogginess.
Continue reading “Leaving you in their dust”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”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”