Tag: leadership skills

Digital Transformation

When Skills Soften: The Quiet Commoditization of Expertise

EA Soft Skill

A useful tell that a skill is “softening” is when you stop hiring specialists for it and start expecting everyone to have it. Not as a bonus. As table stakes. I’ve watched this happen in slow motion before. Computer literacy used to be a hard skill. People took classes just to learn how to operate …

Leadership, Management

Metacognition – how to deal with derailing agendas

matacognition

The word Meta comes from Greek and it means a change or beyond. The meaning of Cognition is more obvious, it represents our thinking. Metacognition refers to an ability to think beyond your current thought process or to change your thought while it occurs. I prefer to think of it as a skill that allows …

Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Management

Systems Thinking

systems

Systems Thinking is not about systems or even about technology, although its origins started in that domain. Systems Thinking is about seeing the world from a 30,000 foot view. The idea behind this concept started in information management, where technologists needed to understand the full big picture in order to design individual parts of a …