More about VUCA

  • Preparing for Successful Change - Check out our paper on “Preparing for Successful Change.”  Implementing a change initiative is more than a simple technical fix for your problems. Instead, it’s a significant shift in the way things happen in your business. How well the implementation is managed is a strong indicator future success and how many of the potential benefits…
  • Navigating Change for Success - “Navigating Change for Success” is a collaborative white paper Don Johnston and Cindy Weeks co-authored that was presented at the MEMO conference in Ontario Canada in 2010.  In this VUCA world, organizations need to continuously adapt to change in the ecosphere, change that is speeding up every year. Organizations that are intentionally linked to their…
  • It’s a VUCA World - Denise Caron’s “It’s a VUCA World” is a colorful and creative powerpoint presentation on VUCA – what it means, where it shows up, ways to respond. It's A Vuca World! from Denise Caron
  • Understanding the VUCA World - “Understanding the VUCA World,” a video with Bob Johansen and David Small.  Bob Johansen, from The Institute For the Future, is the creator of VUCA prime.  In this short video (less than 5 minutes) he explains it.
  • Leading the Revolution - “Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life” by Gary Hamel. Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and coauthor of “Competing for the Future”, the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now delivers an agenda for the twenty-first century with the national bestseller, “Leading the…
  • Leading at the Cusp of Change (a Prezi) - “Leading at the Cusp of Change” is the presentation we shared at the Washington State Nonprofit Conference on May 11, 2012.  It’s about the intersection of leadership and adaptive change, VUCA  and VUCA prime, our change model, and what you can do to better prepare yourself and your organization for the future.
  • Leaders Make the Future - “Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World” by Bob Johansen. We are in a time of disruptive leadership change. In a VUCA world – one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity – traditional leadership skills won’t be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest ten-year forecast…
  • Get There Early - “Get There Early:  Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present” by Bob Johansen. Nobody can predict the future, but you still have to make sense of it to be successful. Leaders are facing a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity–a world laced with dilemmas. This book shows how to sense the future to…
  • Trying To Make VUCA Linear - I catch myself doing it – wanting to deal with VUCA and VUCA prime in a linear fashion. Wanting to be clear about which dynamic it is, so I know I’m responding with the right VUCA prime dynamic. Wanting to somehow make VUCA make sense and play fair. I know better. It’s a losing battle…
  • From fight/flight/freeze to “sinking open” - Our Aikido training has us looking at how to let go, breathe and “sink open” as soon as we notice that our fight/flight/freeze response has been triggered. There are two key dynamics here. The first is noticing our reaction in the midst of that reaction. The second is being willing to open up – let…
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