Hi everyone and welcome to episode 140 of the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host Helen.

Hello everybody. And we're recording this on the 24th of April as the UK and most of the world continues to be in lockdown.

Thank you for continuing to listen. We hope you're all doing okay.

And we hope that, you know, during this time, which we know is a tough time for many people,

that the podcast can hopefully continue to be a source of career inspiration, reassurance,

or even just some friendly voices to listen to each week as you go for a walk.

And this week we're going to be talking about adaptability.

So we're trying to make sure that we do choose topics that feel particularly relevant and pertinent right now.

But equally, won't go out of date if you're listening kind of six months from now, which who knows where we will be in six months from now.

Who knows?

Hopefully we might have seen each other by then.

That would be nice.

Yeah, that would be nice. A long time to go without seeing you.

Thank goodness for technology.

So in terms of adaptability then, we wanted to focus a little bit on what it is and why

it's important.

And then we'll get into some ways that you can develop your adaptability at work.

So there's a really nice quote from Dr Max McCohen who wrote a really good book on innovation

actually. It's quite a nice quick read. But he says that all failure is failure to adapt. All success

is successful adaptation. Investing in high adaptability will lead to higher returns because

people will re-diver

energy wasted in what doesn't work into new success. And I think it's quite a rich statement

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