Chapter 1 - Leadership & Uncertainty
Today, we are at an inflection point, which will transform how we live and work in ways we haven’t yet begun to realize. The next ten years will herald more change across the sciences, technology, the environment and society than we’ve experienced in the last hundred, which will require us to evolve and transform ourselves and our organizations more fluidly and coherently than ever before.
Leadership & Uncertainty - Components:
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Introduction
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The Anticipatory Attitude Framework: Overcoming Your Allergic Response to Uncertainty (Graham Norris)
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Future-Focused Leadership: Vital Lenses for 21st-Century Leaders (Louise Mowbray)
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Cultivating Complexity Fit Leadership (Sonja Blignault)
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Sensemaking Competency for Leaders: What’s your sensemaking quotient? (Gordon Withrow)
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Showing Creativity in Leadership: Change your mind (Dennis Sherwood)
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Guild Leadership: Mixing individual power with group vision for certainty alchemy (Deb Dimoff)
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Chapter Conclusion
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Five Highlights from Leadership and Uncertainty:
Anticipatory Attitudes and Regaining Control over Your Future
We clarified the eight mental stances to approaching uncertainty as a leader, five key symptoms of our allergy to getting it right and a roster of 23 guidances to cultivate a healthy forward-looking stance to leadership
Connecting the Dots Through a Future-Focused Leadership Model
We codified six key lenses that future leaders should be seeing the world through. We additionally supported this view with numerous supporting leadership attributes, behavioral traits and skills that leaders should invest in to stay future fit..
The Marriage of Sensemaking & Leadership as an Approach to this Uncertain Age
We made the argument that these times have created a need to evolve our leadership in touch with facts, feelings and frameworks. We also included a seven part breakdown of a sensemaking leader and what levers they can use to be effective.
Leadership and Pragmatism meets Ideas and Creativity
We made the argument that at times it takes wisdom and experience to know when things are not certain, and obvious decisions are not there. We created a five step method to apply creativity to leadership and asking the pivotal question "how might this be different?"
Four COOL Meta Skills for Complexity Fitness and Five Success Factors to Guild Leadership
We created a COOLness antidote to the mind traps of uncertainty with focused attention and energy, and sustained physical and mental capacity. We also created a fresh 2x2 perspective on new leadership structures and five P success factors for leading Guild-like.
LEADERSHIP AND UNCERTAINTY
In unpredictable times, the more we focus on building our leadership resourcefulness, the more we can lead ourselves and our people to new ways of succeeding.
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We toured through new leadership competencies, sense-making and building leadership fitness muscle, mindsets to help you take on new opportunities, choosing the best-fit lenses for the situation, taking a diverse and open-minded view to possibilities, and even a taste of different forms of group leadership like guild leadership.
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This buffet of practical strategies and inspirations will help build leadership muscle. Equippng ourselves with the strategies to amp up our capabilities to get the results we want, while inspiring our people to reach for their highest and best goalposts.
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Leadership & Uncertainty Inspiration and Call to Actions:
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things; leadership in uncertainty is creating the right space and conditions for the best things to emerge.”
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