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In doing this evaluation of the business, she realized a theme: The things that helped us succeed to get us to this point are not the same things that are going to take us into the future. An Internal Evaluation Simona shared, “It comes down to three things: How we’re operating today, how we’re building teams, and un- derstanding the ways that doing business has changed. It’s because things are changing at a rapid pace that we need to rethink our approach to moving forward. For those of us who have been around a while and have seen the changes over the years, we don’t need to wait because we can already see it coming.” Simona invited the room to take that as motivation – a sign, if one were looking for it – to take action on the changes you know you need to make in your business. She shared a hard truth she learned on her own jour- ney: “Scale doesn’t fix ambiguity, it amplifies it. If you’ve got things that aren’t going right in the company, stay in that situation for long enough and eventually it’ll come back around to bite you. It just takes time.” “Sometimes we know things are getting done simply because that person is good at the job and there’s a trust that it will get done. However, when that person leaves, we’re back to scratching our heads. At the end of the day, the organizational chart is not showing who’s doing the work and how. A lot of us wear sometimes three or four hats – which works until one person leaves and it takes four people to replace them.” This struggle is also showing itself with the ‘silver tsu- nami’ – a generation of tenured employees entering retire- ment, taking with them a knowledge base built over years in the work. How do we retain that critical knowledge? Changes In How We Lead “It comes down to leadership. Once we understand who’s doing what and how our teams are really operating, we start to understand where the risk plays in. When I was working through these challenges in my business, I had to take responsibility. I had to realize at some point that the problem with my organization was me.” As we navigate leadership today, it’s also important to recognize that people want different things from their ca- reers. Not everybody is motivated by more money or chas- ing titles. But how many of us know what our colleagues truly value? How often are you taking the time to sit and think about, am I expressing gratitude for this employee in a way that lands for them? “I think leadership is more than just putting the prover- bial right person in the seat. It’s putting the right character, the right empathetic leader who leads with the intention of actually growing the folks under them.” Simona also introduced the idea of fractional leader- ship as a response to the shift in leadership and team dy- namics, especially post-COVID: “There’s a reason there’s
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