30 Leading in Times of Change

Atchara Juicharern PhD

Atchara Juicharern (Cara), CEO of AcComm Group, was awarded #1 Coach in Asia by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. She is a pioneer in developing a simplified coaching process that has helped executives successfully integrate coaching into their leading activities. Her innovative model has enabled the agility and transformation needed by modern organizations.

Change is not a stranger to humankind or business. In our history, we have gone from horse carriages to cars with engines, and to self-driving cars today. Digital technology has positively changed the way we live, communicate, and collaborate.

The “change” itself has also changed. While our world has constantly experienced change, the rate of change is speeding up. Markets and business models and technologies are transforming at an accelerated rate, unlike anything that past generations have witnessed.

Currently, the business environment needs to be redefined more often due to these unprecedented changes and a world of uncertainty and volatility – constant change has become our new normal. In particular, following the global health crisis, the business environment could be much more challenging. Virtual work settings present a growing challenge for rapid solutions and implementations.

This rate of change in the world is affecting leaders and organizations and, oftentimes, threatens their survival. Many of the leaders that I coached have revealed that although they breathe and ...

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