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• Employees are w orkin g extremely long hours.
• Leaders must contend with a n ince ssant level of unpredic t-
able and highly disruptive chang e. (In these situa tions , you
may hear employ ees comment that i t’s impossi ble fo r them
to s top an d catch thei r breath bef ore being dragged under
by the next chan ge wave.)
• Executives and manag ers pr ivately voi ce the view that the
company u nit or depar tment is in utter c haos, with leaders
confused as to how to d ivide their time a mong competing,
long-term goal s and p riori ties.
Once agai n, within this type of wo rk setting t he leadership
competency of learning agi lity is