“Project Rescue:”A Mindset for Collaboration

By Heather Meeker Green and Rachel DiGiammarino Studies by Stanford Research Institute and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation among Fortune 500 CEOs found that 75% of long-term job success depended on people skills and only 25% on technical skills. Add to that the reality that today’s workforce is facing greater complexity and constant change in virtually all industries—aggressive competition, increased workload, challenges of communicating in a matrixed and global organization, rising economic pressures to be more efficient, and on and on. In this VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment, there is an immense opportunity to develop and hone the competencies that… Read the rest