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Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty with Anu Rathninde

Let's Grow Leaders

Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System—and so are the people you lead. Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success. Get the Book.

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The Call of “Not Knowing”– How Uncertainty is Still the Test of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Not knowing we’d be where we ended up six months later, I wrote a new chapter to Relax, It’s Only Uncertainty in September thinking it was time to re-release the title, after 19 years. This work also resulted in The Ambiguity Architect, a 360 to assess a person’s ability to tolerate or master uncertainty. White, PhD.,

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How To Lead In Uncertainty

CO2

In the last few months, the world has been learning devastating lessons from uncertainty. He could not determine what it was going to be, only that the systems that humanity created were going to be challenged with devastating effects in the short term. The Cliff of Uncertainty.

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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

A system, an object, or a person can preserve stability while they undergo change. And the more stable, functionally sound, and grounded they are, the easier the person, system, or object can incorporate changes without being completely disrupted. A change in perspective will help you to upgrade your response system.

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Sick and tired of dealing with uncertainty?

Lead Change Blog

Uncertainty. I wouldn’t say I had a fear of uncertainty. My first hard lesson of adulthood, i.e. expect one uncertainty after another. Challenge uncertainty with anticipation and planning. After surviving the cut I knew I didn’t want to feel that type of uncertainty again. Develop and use your support system.

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How to Approach Leading in Times of Uncertainty

CO2

In the last few months, the world has been learning devastating lessons from uncertainty. He could not determine what it was going to be, only that the systems that humanity created were going to be challenged with devastating effects in the short term. It comes at a grave cost of life, health, wealth, and psychological wellbeing.

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The Future Of Citizen Data Systems

The Horizons Tracker

Inded, this surge in data has become so valuable that it has been widely described as the “new oil” A new paper from the UK’s Government Office for Science explores the future of citizen data systems, and warns that while there are signficant benefits from such systems, there are also considerable risks.

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