Adapt and achieve
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc divx Adaptability is the best skill you can have. Basketball is a game of rhythm, you set the pace at which you want to play and force the other team to adapt. If your familiar with basketball drills, in basketball practice we have what’s called rolling waves where the goal is to score the most times to stay on the court, the challenge is to play teams that constantly change players so you never face the same team twice. The game is continuous and doesn’t stop until your team loses and then the winner keeps playing.
This makes it very interesting because not only does your team have to adapt but your opponent also has to adapt to their new members. It forces you to play everyone differently as opposed to accepting how the game should be played, you change the game by modifying the rhythm and never showing the same play over and over again.
Improvisation is your best weapon.
The point is you don’t want to fall into predictable patterns of play, never using the same play again because it worked before but rather make it difficult for your opponent to read you by changing your approach continuously.
The ability to play outside other’s experience is THE supreme skill in any strategists arsenal because your opponent will never know what you’ll do next. Change your approach continuously and accept that there is no normal, only continuous change.
Key takeaway: The most adaptive prevail, it’s as simple as that Blood Diamond video
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Categories: Strategy Tags: adaptability, change, change the game, Strategy
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¬ jorgebarba
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¬ josebaldaia
#335 November 12th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Thank you for this post.
I will be, with one of my suns, at a conference about Intergenerational Talent, which conducts me to the idea of adaptability.
My experience as a consultant -Organizational behavior- will be, face to face, with his expectations as Management Student.
Experience (55 years old)-Expectations (21 years old).
In this game your words (“there is no normal, only continuous change.”) are gold.
¬ josebaldaia
#474 November 12th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Thank you for this post.
I will be, with one of my suns, at a conference about Intergenerational Talent, which conducts me to the idea of adaptability.
My experience as a consultant -Organizational behavior- will be, face to face, with his expectations as Management Student.
Experience (55 years old)-Expectations (21 years old).
In this game your words (“there is no normal, only continuous change.”) are gold.
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