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”The Decision Itself
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”Decision Making in Uncertainty
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”Who’s the You?
At a leadership camp in high school, we played a game called “Win as much as you can.” The punchline of the experience (that obviously made an impact, because I’m telling you about it 40 years later!) was that the “you” was plural, not singular. The winners were a team, not an individual — much to the disappointment of the individuals who thought they’d been successful in their solitary pursuit of the victory.
Continue reading “Who’s the You?”New Levels of the Same Game
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” ~ Carl Jung
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