A Challenge for Revolutionary Leadership

when things are like they used to be, leaders are justified in relying on their deep experience to define courses of action and visions of a successful endstate. Staffs should support them with specified required information. Subordinates should follow orders and make accurate reports. Under uncertainty and complexity, though, when the present and future are markedly different than the past, the experience of leaders can get in the way of solutions. Roles need to be reversed. Here is a justification for that idea.

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Education

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• leadership
• management
• chaos
• complexity
• adaptation
• team building
• education

[chrispaparone]

I really like this explanation; albeit I wonder if the "environment" has always been "revolutionary." That is, we have only had the illusion of "static-ticity."

[kenifer8]

i am listening to Dr Steve Strogatz' "Chaos" series from The Learning Company, and it would be consistent with his ideas that what we thought about as "normal" was actually the ""most orderly" part of a process that had chaotic elements in it but which had simply not yet been seen; and so, we may be in an envonment that was much different than what we knew at previous moments; it hasnt changed, but we are seeing a different region

[kenifer8]

oops, that should read "The Teaching Company"

there is a moment in the environment or in the "orbital mapping of the function" when what was once orderly finds itself at the "accumulation point" where what was once simple and obviously deterministic, begins to diverge and multiply, enroute to some really complex forms which are not random, but certainly difficult to predict. Maybe thats where we are :D

[chrispaparone]

Ken, this is GREAT.