Compass: Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching

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Flexibility

Adapt to meet the challenges of a dynamic environment.

Leading in today’s volatile, dynamic business climate is a bit like playing a game in which the rules constantly change. Many current organizational challenges aren’t technical but adaptive, in that there isn’t a single, clear solution. Meeting adaptive challenges calls for creating new processes, systems, or skills, whereas a technical challenge requires a redistribution of resources and a well-defined plan of action. Sustainable success in an adaptive environment requires a willingness to let go of what has worked in the past and to embrace new ways of doing things, even if ...