There are many of you who like me launched businesses in the early 2000’s who have weathered the storms of change over the last two decades. From the anxiety of moving from the 90’s to “Y2K”, to getting through 9/11, the crash in 2008, adjusting to social media and new technology, and now COVID. It’s definitely been a brewing pot for new stories, and lessons learned as we embrace different ways of doing business. Like Don in that final season of Mad Men when he lost everything before coming full circle into his potential, we must rethink our skills and behavior, albeit painful and not without consequence, to be taken seriously. Without the respect and recognition for his past accomplishments, when Don returned to Sterling Cooper, he had to prove himself all over again, regardless of his superior experience.

Today, if we are moving forward it is because we are seeing the new business climate as a challenge to embrace, and we are working to reinvent ourselves to accomplish that.  We have to learn to shift our thinking and ask “what are we doing to remain relevant, to adjust ourselves, in these new times?”.  We cannot rest on our accomplishments of 10 years ago, nope, we have to be willing to put ourselves out there, learn new things, create an environment for new accomplishments, and embrace new relationships.

“Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.”

Another great Monday Mojo I had to share from Seth Kahan from Visionaryleadership.com.  Have a great day and a fabulous week! XOXO Sandy

  We all know a little about what is going to happen tomorrow, don’t we?There’s the sun coming up for starters. And if you make a list of no-brainer certainties, it’s actually pretty long. Put them all together and it starts to lay out the near term pretty well. But, there’s no surprises in there. What if you want to push the crystal ball envelope? How far can you go? PepsiCo did some great work on this in 2012 and published a paper, Research Foresights. It goes into some helpful detail about how they beefed up their capacity for strategic foresight. Worth a read, for sure.
What does this mean on this amazing Monday morning and how can it help your mojo? It means extraordinary things are coming your way and if you lean far enough out over the prow you can see them forming on the horizon! Squint and look hard – tell me what you see. That’s your assignment this week!