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Ideation is the Key to Successful Futuristic Thinking

From The Complete Leader Podcast Episode 84

If you want to be a futuristic thinker, you also need to be an ideator.

In my work with The Innovator’s Advantage, Dr. Evans Baiya and I guide teams and organizations through the innovation process. It’s essentially a blueprint for futuristic thinking, to take an idea and move it through this process to create something of new value. And we’ve often found that one of the greatest roadblocks to success is in a team’s ability to create new ideas.

4 Ways to Grow Your Futuristic Thinking Skills

From Episodes 82 and 83 of The Complete Leader Podcast

Futuristic thinking is one of those skills that does not come easy for a lot of leaders. So, if you feel this way, you are not alone!

It’s an important skill to continuously develop as our world is constantly changing. If you aren’t thinking about the future, you might find you’ve been left behind.

Optimizing Strategy in a VUCA World

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book, Optimizing Strategy for Results, Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD. In a world that’s changing so fast, does strategy still have a role? After examining the seven stages of strategy, there are parts of strategy that are designed to be stable in the storm and there are other parts that are designed to be agile. The authors discuss this idea through the lens of VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and how it provides stability in the midst of change.

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Optimizing Strategy for Results

Host Dale Dixon interviews the authors of the new book, “Optimizing Strategy for Results”, Ron Price; Evans Baiya, PhD,; and Timothy Waema, PhD. Through developing strategy for clients for over 20 years, the authors realized that companies needed an applicable and practical approach to create and optimize strategy with fresh prospective. They discuss the importance of building strategic intelligence, appropriately assigning roles based on talent, and incorporating communication within the seven stages of creating strategy. Each author provides their expert viewpoint to leaders charged with catalyzing results for their organization.

4 Steps to Gain a Talent Advantage with Upskilling

Dr. Evans Baiya, Hr.com, May 2022

Talent development is key to building a competitive organization.

A common mistake is to think your organization’s competitive advantage only comes from products and services, but this is not true. A competitive advantage is a result of superior talent—who are then able to make more contextual products and services and deliver them to the right customer, in the right context, and at the right time. Your talented employees are truly the ones who drive the success of your business.Read More

Nine Strategies for Being the Leader of You

By Jalene Case

Being a good leader of others starts with leading ourselves and yet, it’s still not a commonly discussed topic. If we use the same definition as leadership but flip it to self, this is what it looks like: Self-leadership is influencing yourself to believe in a vision while creating a sense of purpose and direction for yourself.

In a quest to help my clients (and myself!) be better self-leaders, I created the Self-Leadership Map with nine strategies. In this culmination of a nine-post series, you get to pull together what you’ve learned about yourself. If you want to read or reread the previous eight posts, they’re all together on the Self-Leadership Map web page. Even if you haven’t read all the blog posts, you’ll find the essence of the Self-Leadership Map below. You can use this to support yourself in staying focused on what matters most.

Emotions and the Quality of Our Thinking

Host Dale Dixon and TCL Author and Founder Ron Price discuss the role of emotion in our thinking as leaders. Studies in neuroscience indicate that thinking creates emotion instead of emotion establishing our thinking. Ron explains how our brain subconsciously makes predictions through our past experiences, our body sending messages to the brain about the energy it needs, and how the external environment is influencing us. He also describes how emotional intelligence helps leaders recognize the depth that emotions impede their predictive judgements.

How to Strategize for Disruption

What we can learn from Peloton about creating a resilient strategy

By Dr. Evans Baiya

The idea of creating a resilient strategy seems to come up in conversation again and again these days. It’s certainly a sign of the times that Optimizing Strategy for Results, my latest book co-authored with Ron Price and Professor Timothy Waema, is launching two years after COVID-19 lockdowns began in the U.S. People and organizations are now looking for ways to move forward and prepare for the next disruption.

The Shift in Leadership Thinking

Host Dale Dixon and TCL Author and Founder Ron Price discuss the thinking patterns of the modern-day leader. With technological advances, we have much more information to process and think about. Unfortunately, this doesn’t leave room to think deeply. Leaders MUST discipline their thinking to make impactful decisions that positively affect their staff, vendors, and partners. Dale and Ron outline easily applicable strategies to develop a richer way of thinking.

Reframing ‘The Great Resignation’ As ‘The Great Opportunity’

Dr. Francis Eberle Hr.com, January 2022

Asking what to do about the “Great Resignation” is the wrong question right now. A better question is, “How can we benefit from this shift? How can we make it into a ‘Great Opportunity’ instead?” This reframes the concern of the very real current worker shortage and plugs into the new attitudes and desires of employees.

Changing your perspective from great resignation to great reshuffle, as explained in a recent Korn Ferry article, unlocks the mindset you need to act. The number of people leaving their positions is at an all-time high. Whether they take other positions, become solopreneurs or freelancers, retire, or just drop out of the workforce for now, this means that employees are searching for something different—and here lies the opportunity.Read More

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