Leading in a VUCA World

Leading in a VUCA World
Author: Jacobus (Kobus) Kok
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319988840

This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole. Secondly, the book develops new perspectives on the processes of leadership, spirituality, and discernment, particularly in this VUCA context. These perspectives are interdisciplinary in nature, and are informed by e.g. management studies, leadership theory, philosophy, and theology.

Managing in a VUCA World

Managing in a VUCA World
Author: Oliver Mack
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319168894

This book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations. The premises of VUCA can shape all aspects of an organization. To cover all areas, the book is divided into six sections. Section 1 acts as an introduction to VUCA and complexity. It reviews ways to manage complexity, while providing examples for tools and approaches that can be applied. The main focus of Section 2 is on leadership, strategy and planning. The chapters in this section create new approaches to handle VUCA environments pertaining to these areas including using the Tetralemma logics, tools from systemic structural constellation (SySt) approach of psychotherapy and organizational development, to provide new ideas for the management of large strategic programs in organizations. Section 3 considers how marketing and sales are affected by VUCA, from social media’s influence to customer value management. Operations and cost management are highlighted in Section 4. This section covers VUCA challenges within global supply chains and decision-oriented controlling. In Section 5 organizational structure and process management are showcased, while Section 6 is dedicated to addressing the effects of VUCA in IT, technology and data management. The VUCA forces present businesses with the need to move from linear modes of thought to problem solving with synthetic and simultaneous thinking. This book should help to provide some starting points and ideas to deal with the next era. It should not be understood as the end of the road, but as the beginning of a journey exploring and developing new concepts for a new way of management.

Leadership Agility

Leadership Agility
Author: William B. Joiner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006-10-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787979139

Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.

Leadership in a Vuca World

Leadership in a Vuca World
Author: Michael Fuchs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-03-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648500902

Developing one's leadership skills to match our current VUCA world and to do so in a mature and authentic way, is what this book is all about. Psychology, mythology and examples of real-life enterprises are accompanied by the excellent analogy of one of our best-known heroes, Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars saga.

Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management

Managing VUCA Through Integrative Self-Management
Author: Sharda S. Nandram
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-05-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319522310

In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity. More intense debates on global climate change, increased turbulence in financial quarters, increased job insecurity and high levels of stress at the workplace are attracting attention in the context of organization behavior and entrepreneurship. Fear and confusion have become part and parcel of business, often undermining trust, cooperation and inspiration. As a response, a new way of organizing self-management has emerged. The book combines practical wisdom from East and West, to develop integrative self-management theory and practice; provides direction to support an integrative mind-set, integrative organization and integrative leadership; and presents VUCA as an opportunity and necessity for development and growth, rather than a threat.

Leading Without Command

Leading Without Command
Author: Joe Mutizwa
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1482806576

Leading Without Command offers practicing and aspiring leaders in business and other disciplines a new way to lead in a world defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The compelling argument in this book is that leading through command, control, and deployment of raw positional power can no longer guarantee superior organizational performance on a sustainable basis. A new leadership model based on a humane perspective anchored on people-centred principles and supported by a set of appropriate skills and behaviours is put forward. This book is essential reading for anyone in a position of authority or influence over people and for anyone who needs to come to terms with the demands of a globally integrated and hypercompetitive world driven by digital technology, knowledge, and the redistribution of power from leaders to followers in organizations, nations, and societies.

Leaders Make the Future

Leaders Make the Future
Author: Robert Johansen
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609944887

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDWhat are the new leadership skills needed to succeed in the decade ahead? In this second edition Bob Johansen, bestselling author and longtime CEO of the Institute for the Future, teams with the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), not only describing and updating the 10 new essential leadership skills but also offering tools and techniques for developing and applying them.

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World
Author: Rob Elkington
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787149145

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World: Thriving in the New VUCA Context, is the thoughtful analysis of nine expert authors from around the globe who put VUCA under the microscope and take the reader on a journey that looks at VUCA from a number of different leadership perspectives.

Unshakeable Influence

Unshakeable Influence
Author: Daniel Kimble
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733718516

It has never been more apparent just how volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) the world is. With all the adversity and challenge we face in today's world, leaders need to cultivate more inner resilience and learn to lead in a new way - a way that focuses on relational authority rather than positional authority. Resilience and relational authority (AKA - bringing out the best in everyone around us) require winning our inner game of leadership much more than our outer game. Unshakeable Influence provides hands-on and insightful tips for recognizing, responding to, and optimizing everything going on inside of us. The outside world is fickle, at best. When we have an unshakeable inner game as leaders, the outer game flows much more easily.Through exhilarating, relatable, and entertaining stories about motorcycle racing and leadership, Unshakeable Influence explores and examines what mastering the Inner Game of Leadership is, what it looks like, and how it enables leaders and organizations to not only tolerate VUCA, but truly thrive through VUCA.