When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 6 Preview

This week, we’ll introduce the first step in our VUCA Ready Leadership Model: how to properly Prepare. This is where we learn to develop the important capability of Strategic Awareness, and understand how that’s different from Situational Awareness, which many of you already practice fairly regularly.

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May 17, 2022July 1, 2022

Rethink How You Introduce Yourself in This Reorg Environment

How do you respond when you meet someone new and they ask, “What do you do?” Does your answer create a true picture of who you are and what you contribute? In today’s business climate of unrelenting internal change and leadership turnover, the way you introduce yourself can have a huge impact on your career. So in her May 16 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte shares some simple tips that you can practice to go beyond your job title—and make people curious to learn more.

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May 11, 2022

When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 5 Preview

This week, we’ll outline “Your Journey to Readiness” and take a look at the sometimes uncomfortable (but totally worth it!) adventure ahead.

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May 9, 2022May 10, 2022

How Can Leaders Lighten a Heavy Load?

In her May 9 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte shares inspiration from an unlikely source: the Caldecott Award-winning children’s picture book “Zen Shorts.” One story’s simple lesson is also an excellent leadership tip for all of us who feel like we’re carrying an extra heavy load as we try to lead in these uncertain times.

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May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 4 Preview

This week, we’ll look at Chapter Four, titled “The Three Big Shifts Every Leader Needs to Make,” and consider how success in an uncertain world looks very different in the world in which we’ve been accustomed to leading.

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Your Best Next Move - How Leaders Get Better Through Respect - Bobbie LaPorte

May 2, 2022September 4, 2022

How Leaders Get Better Through Respecting Others

In her May 2 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie LaPorte shares leadership lessons from an unlikely source: Draymond Green, the highly talented (and very outspoken!) power forward for the Golden State Warriors. Green, like most pro athletes, has a healthy ego and plenty of confidence in his own ability. But he also has a deep respect for his teammates and his competitors, and he knows he can learn from them. Adopting this kind of “beginner’s mindset”—where you acknowledge and respect the skills of others—can be the first step in improving on your own effectiveness as a leader.

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April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 3 Preview

This week, we’ll look at Chapter Three, titled “The Ripple Effects of Uncertainty,” and consider how your own response to unending curveballs affects your team—and everyone around you.

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April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Dealing With Defeatism in Uncertain Times

When Bobbie LaPorte got together with friends and colleagues for the San Francisco Giants’ Opening Day a couple of weeks ago, she noticed a strong sense of optimism in everyone there—and it wasn’t just excitement about the baseball game or her new book. After all we’ve been through these last few years, leaders are learning how to see challenges as openings to see WHAT IS POSSIBLE. In her April 25 “Your Best Next Move” video, Bobbie shares a simple tip that you can use to deal with the next curveball that comes your way.

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April 19, 2022

When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 2 Preview

As I explain throughout Chapter Two, this same process holds true for leaders in any industry. And the change in mindset is critical to success in this volatile and unpredictable world. As leaders, we need to build a new kind of confidence that allows us to see possibilities where others do not.

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April 13, 2022

When the Curveballs Keep Coming: Chapter 1 Preview

In Chapter One, titled “How Did We Get Here?”, we wade (literally) into the key themes of the book with a flashback to some very important lessons I learned in one of my first Ironman triathlon training races.

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