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Iron Will vs Adaptable Will
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Determination can keep us going when things get difficult, but it can also make us hold on to a decision even when new information suggests we should rethink it. Flexibility is its own kind of strength because an adaptable will knows when to stick with the original…
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What Can Pigs Teach Us About Decision Making?
Today’s 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 in two sentences: Sometimes the most valuable lessons in decision making come from the places we least expect. Pigs remind us that good judgment is not about knowing everything, but about consistently observing, remembering, discerning, adapting, and choosing well. A Surprising Teacher As a young adult, I absolutely LOVED National…
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Running a business is a lot like the Netflix survival series Outlast
Every day presents a new challenge. You wake up not entirely sure what you’re going to face. A client delays payment. A key employee leaves. A proposal you were counting on goes nowhere. A competitor makes a move you didn’t anticipate. Something that should have taken a week takes a month. You make plans, but…
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Stop Trying to Create Perfect Stability
When I first read Thriving on Chaos years ago, what remained as a foundational thought, was not any particular model or management technique. It was the challenge buried inside the title itself. Most people spend an enormous amount of energy trying to create conditions that feel permanent. Businesses do it. Leaders do it. Entire industries…
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Uncertainty is the NEW certainty
The only thing constant is change. You and I have uttered these words on numerous occasions but most times on a very surface level. It’s almost as if when we say the words we feel that it’s all that’s required; that speaking these words alone will inoculate us against dealing with stuff that we can’t…
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