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My talk on Leadership Competencies for VUCA World at "Adapting Project Mananagement Competencies"
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Leadership Competencies���for a ���
VUCA World Tathagat Varma
VP, Strategic Process Innovations [24]7 Innovation Labs
Do you want to be in movies?
Good! Let’s go…
How about?
OK, how about all four?
Volatility ���The nature and dynamics of change, and
the nature and speed of change forces and change catalysts.
Volatility – Leadership Challenges
The pace of change is faster and more rapid than our ability to respond
The increased pace of change requires accelerated decision making
Change are large scale and occur suddenly and usually require an urgent response.
Leaders are left feel overwhelmed, stress, anxious and unprepared to lead effectively
The challenge for leaders is to learn to respond and manage change more effectively. To shift from reacting to change and move towards a more proactive response to change
Command and control structures fail in fast changing and disruptive environments.
h"p://www.georgeambler.com/vuca-‐leading-‐in-‐turbulent-‐8mes/
Uncertainty ���The lack of predictability, the prospects for surprise, and the sense of awareness and understanding of issues and events.
Uncertainty – Leadership Challenges
It’s difficult to get a handle on what’s actually happening
Leaders are required to act on incomplete or insufficient information
Leaders are are more likely to rely on what seemed to have worked in the past
Too much information noise, not enough signal
Difficulty in “connecting the dots” to understand the outcomes of an event
h"p://www.georgeambler.com/vuca-‐leading-‐in-‐turbulent-‐8mes/
Complexity ���The multiplex of forces, the confounding of
issues and the chaos and confusion that surround an organization.
Complexity – Leadership Challenges
Difficulty in acting and drive the change required to address the web of interrelated issues and concerns
Increased complexity makes it difficult to know where to start to drive change
Temptation to act on and implement short-term solutions and over rely on quick wins
Leaders lack the time to reflect and think through the complexities and end up acting too quickly
Mitigating actions do not address the root cause only the symptoms
The danger of getting stuck in analysis paralysis and end up acting too late
h"p://www.georgeambler.com/vuca-‐leading-‐in-‐turbulent-‐8mes/
Ambiguity ���The haziness of reality, the potential for
misreads, and the mixed meanings of conditions; cause-and-effect confusion.
Ambiguity – Leadership Challenges
Failure to understand the significance of an event
High risk of miss-interpreting events and responding inappropriately of in ineffective ways
Leaders are too far removed from the source and context of the events
Leaders act based on a limited understanding of events and their meaning
h"p://www.georgeambler.com/vuca-‐leading-‐in-‐turbulent-‐8mes/
So, what’s this VUCA thingy?
• US Military started using this term in late 90s for the post-Cold War world
• “relates to how people view the conditions under which they make decisions, plan forward, manage risks, foster change and solve problems.”
• Reflects a fast-paced, increasingly unstable and rapidly changing world
• …The New Normal!
How does it impact?
Vola8lity
Causes fear, risk-‐aversion and ‘back-‐to-‐
basics’ reac8ons
Uncertainty
Causes paralysis through a tendency to
invest excessive – and fu8le – efforts on
data analysis
Complexity
Causes a desire to look for
scapegoats or black and
white solu8ons that are usually
erroneous
Ambiguity
Induces doubt,
distrust and hesitancy,
and impedes decision-‐
making and change
h"p://www.zeislerassociates.com/VUCA.html
The antidote – VUCA Prime
Leaders Make The Future – Bob Johansen
Leadership Lessons from US Military
Vola8lity
• Translate data into informa8on
• Communicate early
• Ensure your intent is understood
Uncertainty
• Get a fresh perspec8ve
• Be flexible • Glance back, look ahead
Complexity
• Develop collabora8ve leaders
• Stop seeking permanent solu8ons
• Train tomorrow’s heroes now
Ambiguity
• Listen well • Think Divergently
• Setup incremental dividends
h"p://hbr.org/special-‐collec8ons/spotlights/2010/november
Success factors from Industry
Retain a clear vision
Provide clear direc8on and consistent messaging
An8cipate risks but don’t invest too
much 8me in long-‐term strategic plans
Think big picture
Capitalize on complexity Be curious
Encourage networks rather than hierarchies
Leverage Diversity
Employee engagement
Get used to being uncomfortable!
h"p://www.impac8nterna8onal.com/blog/2012/01/leadership-‐vuca-‐world
“…Having spent forty years forecasting, I believe that the future world will be more volatile, more uncertain, more complex, and more ambiguous, or so it will seem if you are in a seat of leadership.”
Ten Leadership Skills
Maker Ins8nct
Clarity
Dilemma Flipping
Immersive Learning Ability
Bio-‐empathy
Construc8ve Depolarizing
Quiet Transparency
Rapid Prototyping
Smart mob organizing
Commons Crea8ng
Recap
The new normal…and only gets be"er!
Needs different set of leadership skills
Key is to have Vision, Understanding, Clarity and Agility
Pic: h"p://managementhelp.org/blogs/leadership/2011/02/23/using-‐vuca-‐%E2%88%9E-‐vuca-‐prime/
References • VUCA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility,_uncertainty,_complexity_and_ambiguity • Understanding the VUCA World with Bob Johansen and David Small -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJqCPFzq6kU • Living in a VUCA World - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6x7JeNNsU • Living in the VUCA World with Prof. Paul Kinsinger - http://vimeo.com/64649575 • Leadership in a VUCA World with Marish Manwani -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA02Jvpo8LQ and http://www.hul.co.in/Images/Harish-AGM-Speech-2013-Leadership-in-a-VUCA-World_tcm114-365167.pdf
• Leading change in the VUCA world - http://prezi.com/1s2xds8yngir/vuca-prime/ • Leading in a VUCA Environment - http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/11/leading-in-a-vuca-environment/,
http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/11/leading-in-a-vuca-environment-1/, http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/12/leading-effectively-in-a-vuca/, http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/01/leading-effectively-in-a-vuca-1/
• Developing Leaders in a VUC Environment - http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/~/media/Files/documents/executive-development/developing-leaders-in-a-vuca-environment.pdf
• http://blog.jerasustainabledevelopment.com/2012/09/05/downside-up---managing-risks-part-1.aspx • Winning a SuperVUCA World - http://www.saatchikevin.com/Winning_in_a_SuperVUCA_World/
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