Leading in a “VUCA” world: Finding Clarity through Story It’s a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world out there. Dr. Bob Johansen says we might as well get used to it. Johansen is the former president and CEO of the Institute for the Future, and the author of two terrific books on forecasting (Get There Early)[…]
Is there room in business for ideas like beauty, love and truth? (Or, more specifically, is there room for them in your business?) If he’s not on your RSS feed already, you should make space for Gary Hamel over at wsj.com. He’s always worth reading, but I find myself coming back repeatedly to a post from January: “The Hole[…]
My favorite tweeter these days is Umair Haque, an economist of all things, who also writes a blog over at Harvard Business Review. Haque is in the middle of a year-long exploration of the evolution of capitalism. A sampling of recent tweets provides a small glimpse into the broader thinking under development at Haque’s company, Havas Media Lab:[…]
Yesterday, 400 people who thought they had tickets to Super Bowl XLV showed up at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas only to be turned away. The fire marshal apparently deemed a whole section of temporary seating unsafe. Since then, the NFL has been conducting a master class in how not to handle communications in a crisis. Let’s start[…]
My youngest is home with a fever today, and so I am home, too. In a delightful “you got your peanut butter on my chocolate” moment, I was just now sitting at the dining room table reading the latest from Seth Godin while my daughter is in the other room watching “Ratatouille.” What a great[…]
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Saunya Peterson was at Ignite Minneapolis giving a presentation on context. Her basic premise: story often gets lost when you present facts without context. Saunya’s example: “Young girl is mysteriously transported to a strange land where she kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”[…]