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Improvise
Asked about his plan for getting out of trouble, the movie hero Indiana Jones replies ‘I don’t know, I’m just making it up as I go along’. It’s what many successful leaders also do in running their organisations. The ability to improvise, be adaptable and find unexpected solutions will make you particularly valuable as a leader in organisations in the twenty-first century.
If you want to make God laugh, goes one reliable aphorism, ‘Tell her your plans’. Regardless, conventional executives devote serious time and energy trying to remove uncertainty about what is over the horizon. In practice, the future continues its never-ending ...
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