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What can you control when the future is unpredictable?

What can you control when the future is unpredictable?

by Brandi Olson | Dec 4, 2020 | Expansions, Leadership, Outcomes, Planning & Strategy, Responding to Change

What can you control when the future is unpredictable? Welcome to December, where winter has arrived in my part of the far northern hemisphere. It’s impossible to predict exactly when the snow will arrive and how the winter season will settle in, but every single year...
Prioritize Your Change Capital Investment

Prioritize Your Change Capital Investment

by Brandi Olson | Nov 3, 2020 | Expansions, Leadership, Prioritization, Responding to Change

Prioritize Your Change Capital Investment I’ll give you a quick example of how I saw this play out for an organization that I’ve been working with for the last year. This is a data analytics firm, and they had been planning on doing a big organizational...
How Are You Spending Your Change Capital?

How Are You Spending Your Change Capital?

by Brandi Olson | Oct 13, 2020 | Foundations, Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Prioritization, Responding to Change, Teams

How Are You Spending Your Change Capital? All of us have change capital. Change capital is like social capital or even economic capital. It’s something that we get to spend, we get to budget, and we get to invest as we navigate responding to change in our lives...
When Responding to Change, Start Here.

When Responding to Change, Start Here.

by Brandi Olson | Oct 13, 2020 | Foundations, Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Responding to Change, Teams

When Responding to Change, Start Here. It seems simple. But don’t underestimate how powerful it is to get the right people in the right conversation at the same time. When everything is moving fast, you forget the simple practices that make it easier to lead. If you...
Planning at the Speed of Change

Planning at the Speed of Change

by Brandi Olson | Oct 13, 2020 | Foundations, Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Responding to Change, Teams

Planning at the Speed of Change I was working with a financial services company in the spring of 2020, right as the global pandemic unfolded. The United States government called on banks to offer small business loans — in record time, with brand new rules. All the...
When It’s A Mindset Change

When It’s A Mindset Change

by Brandi Olson | Oct 13, 2020 | Expansions, Leadership, Learning, Outcomes, Responding to Change, Teams

When It’s A Mindset Change I recently had a very interesting chat with cognitive psychologist Dr. Kimberly Halvorson, CEO of @Brainsatwork. This is Part 2 of that conversation. We ended up talking about how human brains work at their best, and how multitasking makes...
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