How to Create Safe Places for Tackling Difficult Problems

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This post originally appeared on the Center for Values-Driven Leadership blog on July 21, 2015.

Imagine you are leading an organization facing an uncertain and changing future. The processes and products of the past are no longer functioning or performing, employees are experiencing challenges they have never encountered before, and leadership feels like they are jumping from fire to fire trying to manage risk. As organizations face the reality of a world where environments are in continual flux, it is understandable that a practical approach to addressing the changing landscape is at the top of most organizational wish lists. How can leaders address the need to be responsive to changes in the economy, with employees, and within society?

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