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7 Strategies For Thriving In A Changing World

The key isn’t just to wait it out; it is what you do — together — that makes all the difference.

1. Accept Your Battle

2. Leverage Your Solitude

3. Guide Your Energy

4. Achieve Small Goals Every Day

5. Influence Others, Then Let Them Influence You

6. Empathy Always Pays Dividends

7. No Matter What, Move Forward

  • What product or service needs, technologies, and socioeconomic factors are already changing — no matter what we might be doing about them?
  • What are my most socioeconomically impactful strategies? Where will they be in the next quarter or the next year?
  • What does my organization do well right now? What have we always done better than anybody?
  • What can we do better by finding new partners or collaborators or by considering mergers and acquisitions?

References:

  1. Sacks, Jonathan, “Rabbi Sacks on the Coronavirus Pandemic,” interview by Emily Maitlis, Jonathan Sacks (website), March 19, 2020, https://rabbisacks.org/rabbi-sacks-on-the-coronavirus-pandemic-extended- newsnight-interview/
  2. May, Rollo, The Courage to Create (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994).
  3. Quote Investigator, citing a 1934 interview with Nicholas Tesla, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/06/invent-alone/
  4. “Why Being a Loner May Be Good for Your Health,” BBC Future, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180228-there-are-benefits-to- being-antisocial-or-a-loner
  5. “Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World,” UT News, University of Texas at Austin, May 16, 2014, https://news.utexas.edu/2014/05/16/mcraven-urges-graduates-to-find-courage-to-change-the-world/
  6. Hoque, Faisal, “The Paradoxical Traits of Resilient People,” Fast Company, November 13, 2013, https://www.fastcompany.com/3021513/ the-paradoxical-traits-of-resilient-people

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Entrepreneur, Author. Founder of Shadoka, Next Chapter, and others. Author of #1 WSJ Bestseller “Lift”, also of “Everything Connects”. Twitter @faisal_hoque.

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Faisal Hoque

Entrepreneur, Author. Founder of Shadoka, Next Chapter, and others. Author of #1 WSJ Bestseller “Lift”, also of “Everything Connects”. Twitter @faisal_hoque.