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Stride’s Leading Through Adversity Speaker Series starts today! Please share if you have a second:

10 experts from around the globe discussing practices for leading during uncertain times. Weekly. 20 - 30 min content and 20 - 30 min Q&A.

Lineup includes: Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, Jeff Gothelf, Charlie O’Donnell, David Siegel (Meetup CEO) and more

See full lineup here: https://lnkd.in/d7KznQA

5/26 1pm — Return to work for tech companies — Sequoia Consulting Group - When should tech teams return to the office? This year? Next? What are our legal risks? What are best practices? How do we keep our teams safe?

5/28 1pm — Failure is always an option — by NYC VC Charlie O’Donnell - Brooklyn Bridge Ventures - Don’t fear failure. Learn to embrace it to succeed.

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Jerry Weinberg was right. Removing one organizational problem uncovers another just as dire. Like ascending a ladder only to find another ladder. Even when I’m part of the problem, I’ll just keep climbing.

We’ve created a series to make the coaches and advisors helping us available to help you. The first session is May 26th.

Determination is an energetic chemical reaction of fear, imposter syndrome, ego, humility, experience and new learning catalyzed by purpose.

Will New Yorkers slip in discipline as the state opens up? You didn’t have to be affected to sense the horror of un-contained spread but our brains will fight us: fading affect bias - we tend to forget memories tied to negative emotions, hot hand fallacy, illusion of control…

Separate from government and business, reopening a locale requires citizens’ self-organize to reduce spread. How to foster that? NYS is showing us. Provide transparency on what is needed, connect that to both larger purpose and people’s self interest. Remove impediments.#agile

NYS is reopening using empirical process control. Pursue activity, measure outputs and observe impact. Inspect and adapt: change based on what you learn to minimize harm and create benefit. High stakes, a complex environment, and care for people is aligned to an Agile response.

It is entirely valid to critique a leader for being wrong. But how quickly and courageously do they adapt to evidence they are wrong. Fallibility in my eyes forgivable. Wishful thinking and denial is not.

We descend from the jelly in the pond with the most survivable mutation. Hardly means we are well-crafted in intellect or temperament to our current moment. Let’s do our best anyway.

The Venn diagram of what I need to develop in myself to become a more effective leader and my comfort zone - well at least they intersect.

Surround yourself with qualified people who act with integrity. Let them know what they are accountable for, create a safe space for them to work together, and help them get it done. That is the job and it takes all you can give it.

A leading indicator for the resilience of a business is the share of facts and decisions a leadership team feels safe sharing with their employees.