Finding Opportunity During Crisis with Dirk Dobbs

 


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For today’s episode, we’re joined by Dirk Dobbs. Dirk is the Head of Strategy and Product at HESTA, an Australian industry superannuation fund for workers in health and community service sectors. In this episode, we’re talking about finding opportunities during crisis and tuning out the noise, and Dirk shares his learning from emergency situations, both in a professional context as well as a very unique and time-sensitive fatherhood challenge. Dirk also talks about the importance of remaining flexible and adapting to changing circumstances, creating a window of calm in the chaos, and maintaining explicit and transparent communication. We discuss making process changes and taking action without hesitating, and Dirk also has some great advice about seeing positive opportunities in challenging times and tuning out the noise to remain focused on the task at hand in emergency situations. Tune in today!

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