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How to know when your adaptive strategy is working
From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
How to know when your adaptive strategy is working
- Whenever I hear the business plans for the countless startups that I've advised, I always ask one important question, how will you know if your strategy is successful? You need to know that your strategy is working or you're going to need to change strategies. The same question applies to you as an adaptive manager. If you're trying to prepare adaptive workers that deal with the world of constant change, how will you know if your strategy has been successful? So, here are some signs to look for. First, you'll know if you're creating adaptive workers if your team members start talking in the language of problems and results. They don't just talk about their activities, they talk about the deliverables that are connected to your group's strategic goals on an ongoing basis. Next, your team members start coming to you not with problems, but solutions. They understand their roles are either to solve those problems or as we say in Silicon Valley, to route around problems by coming up with…