In my 3 part series on building resilience in a VUCA world, this last installment is about connection. When things are volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, many of us sideline connection, choosing avoidance, numbing, or hunkering down instead. Because VUCA environments are swift and often unforgiving, it is perhaps natural to just want to drop
“How are you complicit in creating the conditions of your life that you say you don’t want?” This question, in Jerry Colonna’s recent book, “Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up” leapt off the page and grabbed me by the throat. Its provocation has been with me for weeks now, begging me to think
We live in a “VUCA” world: an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The stakes are high and nothing seems simple or clear-cut; the effective way forward is not known. The world seems to be collapsing around us: at the macro level with a global climate crisis, right on down to the micro
Unless you’ve been under a rock in recent years, you are achingly aware that our nation is polarized. We are told that with each passing day, we are becoming more and more vehemently divided. I don’t know whether this is a fact, but since it is a widely-held perception, it deserves our careful consideration and
I haven’t written a blog post for over a year because frankly, I couldn’t. The horror of living in Trump’s America was my undoing. I had a particular set of responses to his daily assaults which cycled something like: horrified, furious, stunned, numb, terrified, stunned, numb, heartbroken, stunned, numb. Rinse and repeat. I could not