Leadership truths for an uncertain future

We’ll take another trip around the Sun before the word for 2019 is revealed, but I’m staking a claim now. The best single-word description of the future is uncertain.

Meanwhile, the demands on your team to stay focused, productive, and responsive continue. No one will give you a pass on fulfilling today’s commitments just because the world around you lurches from one set of priorities and circumstances to the next.

In hind sight, leaders have had it relatively easy for the past couple of years. Despite the difficulty of enormous change, at least there has been some consistency in knowing the game you are playing. Leading in an uncertain world, on the other hand, will be like a continuous game of chess where the players move without warning and act in ways that you don’t expect or recognize.

If this sounds familiar, Lewis Carroll described that exact scenario in his classic book Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. In the story, Alice succeeds despite her initial belief that everything is impossible. You can, too, by acknowledging and acting on these leadership truths for an uncertain world.

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