“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.”
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The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
