The Strategy Skills Podcast: Management Consulting | Strategy, Operations & Implementation | Critical Thinking

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 260, an episode with bestselling author, keynote speaker, workplace expert, and resilience researcher, Adam Markel. Get Adam's Book here: https://amzn.to/3PwE6l6   In this episode, Adam speaks about how he reinvented his career path through valuable lessons and eye-opening life events. He shares his experience as a Jones Beach lifeguard in New York. As a first responder in a life-and-death environment, he learned the importance of cultivating a high-performance capacity and impeccable teamwork. He learned to never let anyone go down the water, not to quit, and to keep going no matter what the conditions are. Years later after experiencing a panic attack due to stress and exhaustion, he was reminded of another important piece of lesson that he learned at the beach: the importance of taking intermittent breaks. Take rest, recover and recuperate, or you cannot perform well.   Lots of people think of resilience as getting up after taking a blow, moving forward after getting knoc