Last week, I started a six part series of blog posts called Practical Leadership Insights about Leading during a Transition. This series is focused on presenting real-world ideas and tools to leaders operating in the VUCA world of the “new normal.” It has provided tips and thoughts on how to understand and execute business strategy through people when a business ecosystem is in transition.  I discussed how I believe this is different than Change Management because Change Management is an evolving process that teaches leaders to build resilience to forces outside of the organization, whereas transition is a finite event that is controllable and usually initiated as a logical business decision. 

Eight ideas to help you overcome the challenges of the VUCA world to create employee loyalty

Earlier this week, I started a series of blog posts called “Practical Leadership Insights about Leading During a Transition.” This initial post presented real-world ideas and tools that will provide the modern day leader with the ability to understand and execute business strategy through people when the ecosystem is in a business transition.  I discussed how I believe this is different than Change Management because Change Management is an evolving process that teaches leaders to build resilience to forces outside of the organization.  Transition on the other hand is a finite event that is controllable and usually initiated as a logical business decision. 

If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will soon; the opportunity to lead during a transition.  In 2016 and beyond, it is inevitable.  Your company will be bought, merged with another, spun off, have a new strategy, have new leadership, or all of the above within the next 24 months. 

In 2016, we have all accepted certain realities of the evolving business world such as globalization, the millennial work force and their attitudes, the continued development of emerging markets, and the understanding that the next disruptive technology is just around the corner.

Leading and influencing remote teams is one of the many changes in the workplace that

As school students, we all went through our academic journeys striving for A’s and fearing flunking tests. Today, we root for sport teams to win and very rarely remember who came in second. In the business world, have you ever heard of a sales professional who missed their quota and received an invitation to the president’s club? Or the supply chain manager who constantly is making the wrong vendor choices and winning employee of the year?  How about the IT Leader who chose the wrong ERP system and was toasted at the shareholder's meeting for a job well done?  Except for the occasional mulligan in Golf, failure, in most aspects of our lives, is not an option.