Assessing flexibility can create more versatile leaders. Versatile leaders have employees with higher job satisfaction, commitment and engagement. Agility, adaptability, versatility — call it what you will, there is no denying that flexibility is crucial for business success in the 21st century. The relentless pace of technological change, increasingly fierce global competition and flatter organizational structures demand nimble, fleet-footed managers who can adapt on the fly to changing conditions. recent IBM study found the No. The traditional approach suffers from two shortcomings. MORE >>

This is a new post style here that I plan to repeat annually on my birthday. I’d like to say it’s meaningful and clever, but it’s mostly because my birthday is in January and I haven’t gotten around to posting my year-in-review post in time, and have thus decided that January 26th is close enough, and actually works better for me because I try not to do much at all the last week of December and first week of January. So here goes. If you want to listen to something while reading, check this out: Walk Don’t Walk – Robert Randolph ). started a new business. MORE >>

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