Build your Bravery “muscles”

Now more than ever, we need bravery in our leaders.

Senninger’s learning zone model

Yesterday, in “Innovation is simple”, I wrote:

As we emerge from the current lockdown, there will be decades worth of opportunities to innovate opening up in a matter of week and months.

In order to be able to move at the speed the world will now move at, each of us needs to be able to be comfortable with uncertainty, to be a VUCA2.0 leader in this VUCA world, making the decisions that need to made and when they need to be made.

I could advise you (and do), again and again, to “Act Now”, to Predict and be Proactive and Narrow your Focus, etc., yet if you are not ready and able to think, and act bravely, decisively and quickly, none of that will be of value.

So, first, build your Bravery “muscles”, get more and more comfortable being uncomfortable, being and making decisions outside your current comfort zone. Today, then, some simple tips on this.

Build on strengths by stretching with Bravery

The image above is a well-established model on Comfort, Learning (or Stretch) and Panic (or Fear) zone…