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Changing Conversations · Jan 5, 2024 · 28 min

Zafer Achi - How to lead in complexity

Zafer Achi is an executive coach, a team coach and a designer and facilitator of leadership development interventions. He has 34 years of consulting experience, including 27 years as a partner with McKinsey & Company. We have invited Zafer Achi to talk to us about complexity. He will help us create a language on the different types of challenges we face to enable us to apply the right tools. The key topics covered in this episode are: The difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and when something is complicated or complex How to lead with curiosity and compassion How to address adaptive challenges Integrating perspectives to manage complexity better How to set a direction instead of a destination and lead towards it For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.

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Zafer Achi is an executive coach, a team coach and a designer and facilitator of leadership development interventions. He has 34 years of consulting experience, including 27 years as a partner with McKinsey & Company. We have invited Zafer Achi to talk to us about complexity. He will help us create a language on the different types of challenges we face to enable us to apply the right tools.

The key topics covered in this episode are: 

  • The difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and when something is complicated or complex
  • How to lead with curiosity and compassion
  • How to address adaptive challenges
  • Integrating perspectives to manage complexity better
  • How to set a direction instead of a destination and lead towards it

 

For references, links and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here

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