Time to invest in Leadership

At the time of writing, Covid-19 is escalating and the impact is growing on humans and business around the world, as I wrote in my last two posts: “Act Now” and “Crisis leadership — This too shall pass”. Counter-intuitive though it may seem for some, I encourage business leaders to invest now in leadership.

Right now economic activity is down and will stay down for some time, so where you have a healthy Balance Sheet, “zig” while others “zag”, invest in leadership, in the core qualities not only at times of crisis but into the future.

I begin today’s thoughts around this by noting that on my #BeMoreYou page, I list four core qualities of #OpenLeadership as being: Brave, Hungry, Open, Humble.

I’ll follow on now by talking about VUCA 2.0, or how to lead in our VUCA world.

From VUCA to VUCA2.0

VUCA 2.0 is a powerful reframe of VUCA resonant and similar to #OpenLeadership and was introduced by Bill George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, in his February 2017 article in Forbes:

VUCA 2.0: A Strategy For Steady Leadership In An Unsteady World