5 insights that will allow you to compete in the future of work

Keith Ferrazzi shares five key insights from his new book, Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest. Listen to the audio version-read by the author-in the Next Big Idea App to learn more about the book.

Never go “back” to work-only go forward to work

This is your opportunity to learn from your peers

• Use this opportunity to open up your curiosity, and make sure that you, your team, and your organization never goes back to work, but only goes forward

Crowded Foresight is CENSORED

The “foresight five minutes”

• Everyone in the room should come to the meeting with a distinct way of looking at the world
• What risks and opportunities do we need to potentially move into an analysis meeting
• There’s great opportunity in inviting foresight from all parts of an organization

Agile

We need to move from “crisis agile” to agile as our primary operating system

• Today, we have to negotiate very clear outcomes-based weekly sprints of work
• What are each of us and each of our teams going to do this week?
• Allow empowerment during that week to achieve as much as they can achieve
• A standup at the end of the week determines what did we do and what we struggled with

Collaboration starts before the meeting

We can utilize simple, high-return practices of asynchronous collaboration

• A decision board
• Instead of having a meeting, just say, “Here’s the issue we’re struggling with” and then put it in a shared document
• Here’s some possible creative solutions,” and put it on the document.
• Let those individuals send it out to who they think should be involved and discuss ideas in the cloud

Resilience is a team sport

Co-elevation

• When a team shares openly, the team makes a commitment for shared energy and relationships
• An energy check-in
• At the beginning of your meeting, everybody is asked to diagnose for themselves where they are from an energy perspective on a scale of zero to five
• People might otherwise hold those feelings back for weeks, but now they’re willing to share them because of a very simple invitation for shared resilience

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