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in, and get those perspectives from those angles you do not see yourself. Where are the bottlenecks, disconnects, gaps and opportunities? 2. Identify Your Nearest Safe Haven If the storm worsens, where do you go? Determine if you can stabilize while operating, or if you need to carve out space to regroup. How long could you afford a holding pattern based on liquidity and current contracts if need- ed? Can you pause non-critical activity can create the bandwidth to work current priorities and think? 3. Reclarify The Destination Is your original goal still valid? Has success been rede- fined? Do you need some near term interim short-term tar- gets, so your team has direction and urgency without false certainty. Redundancy in communication is going to help you iron out ambiguity, misalignment and identify where your definition or boundaries need sharpening. Clarity di- rects Energy. 4. Diagnose the Big Levers Focus on the two to four areas to invest time and re- sources in to get you back on track towards success. Fo- cus is key to success in turmoil, so deprioritize distractions and non-critical tasks to free up capacity and ‘noise’ in the system. Make sure the interdependencies between these efforts are identified and resourced. 5. Decision Making Mechanics Good and fast decision making is facilitated by deploy- ing decision making frameworks, they are simple, fit for purpose and hence not complex to implement. You need the clarity on the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why now’ the
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