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Below you'll find a list of all posts from April, 2019

Publicly listed corporations in the United States have a one-in-three chance of being delisted from the stock exchanges within the next five years, a rate that has increased sixfold in the past forty years. This nonlinear increase is an indicator that far too many companies have had difficulty becoming truly adaptable.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 7. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

As we found in the military, complicated systems don't do so well in complex environments.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 6. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

Our world, with increasingly widespread access to high-speed information flow and pervasive interconnecting technologies […] is increasing daily in its complexity.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 5. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

The speed with which humans within the system can connect and solve emerging issues becomes the limiting factor within the bureaucracy.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 4. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

The impersonally ordered bounds of a bureaucracy assume leaders will be able to identify where and when cross-functional collaboration is necessary, then enable that cooperation and interaction. In a complex environment, this expectation compounds anxiety for leaders.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 3. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

When you are in a small team at the tactical level—whatever the industry—you are closest to your organization's pressing problem set, and can see or feel solutions either take hold or fail.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 2. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'

Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George S. Patton Jr

Fabio Walser April 1. 2019 Leading others, Leading yourself

As the level of nose increases, so does the likelihood that leaders will either fail to effectively move information between teams or leave their superiors out of the loop as they scramble to put out the fires.

Chris Fussel in 'One Mission'

Fabio Walser April 1. 2019 X-board: 'One Mission'