Happy Monday and long weekend ka!
Another article that has touched on VUCA though much earlier on than the previous email is 'Leaders Make the Future', by Bob Johansen who points out 10 new leadership skills for an uncertain world. The book was summarized by summary.com back in 2009 and is even more relevant today when uncertainty has crept in with strong impacts.
The author has turned the negative VUCA around to be as follows:
Volatility yields to vision while Uncertainty could be coped with by understanding, Complexity by clarity and Ambiguity by agility.
The 10 leadership skills needed are:
1. Maker Instinct
- Able to exploit one’s inner drive to constantly improve things and synchronize this instinct with those of others while focusing on connectivity and network with leaders as nodes
- Very clear about what one is making but very flexible about how to get it done, able to acquire more knowledge and inspire others to follow
- Able to turn dilemmas into advantages and opportunities while having the skills to listen and learn without judgment what's going on to understand and tackle properly
- Able to immerse oneself in unfamiliar environments to learn from them in a first-person way through gaming and simulation (online social world)
- Able to take big picture thinking that respects all the multiple interrelated parts and nonlinear relationship as well as cycles of change, and to give value to person-to-person communication
- Able to calm tense cross-cultural situations and bring people from diverse backgrounds toward constructive engagement-- you can imagine I do love this one a lot kaaa! this also includes language skills besides cross-cultural knowledge and skills na ka.
- Able to be open, self-effacing but not self-promoting (willing to tell others what one do/did and why but only when asked)
- Give up some control by deciding what one can do and what one wants to manage
- Able to create quick early version of innovation by failing early, failing often, and failing cheaply for faster cycle of learning by doing (extreme speed in learning) without focusing on idea ownership
- Able to create, engage with and nurture purposeful business or social change networks through intelligent use of electronic and other media
- Able to create shared asset for the benefit of all by creating new commons (especially out of dilemmas)
VUCA has permeated our world of work and life, which will challenge us further, especially those who have to lead. New Normal leaders sure need to learn even faster with understanding of others, openness to change with less fear of failure and of uncertainty.
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