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- Resilience and failure. Long-term realities of organizations in a global world. Determinism and contingency. Risk mitigation and rising strong skills: the quintessential paradox.
- The story-making process amidst failure. Self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional literacy. Owning our stories of failure. Three steps to Rising Strong: Reckoning, Rumble, and Revolution.
- The Reckoning Step. Creating perspective while managing emotional reactivity.COVID-19 examples.
- The Rumble Step. Story drafts and dynamics. Emotion-driven meaning-making. Conspiracies, confabulations, spurious connections. Reality-checking our stories with ourselves and our fellow leaders. Recognizing the Delta.
- The Revolution Step. Getting up supported by critical thinking and integrity. Differentiating failure learnings from adverse contingencies. Embedding the Delta learnings.
- Failures of competitors: what, when, and why to learn. Nurturing a culture of healthy competition within and outside an organization.
- Modeling hope, clarity, and kindness. Hope as a mode of cognition. Goals, pathways, and the sense of agency. The mythology and evidence around Plan B.
- Models of power facilitating and interfering with Rising Strong. Leading with courage and leading from behind armor.
- Trust and Rising Strong. The B.R.A.V.I.N.G. component model of trust by Brené Brown. Self-trust and trusting others amidst failure. The distinction and interconnectedness of trust components.
- The COVID-19 pandemic as a leadership case study: Rising Strong, doubling down, and contingency planning exposed.