“Leaders Make the Future” by Bob Johansen
Bob Johansen, Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2009). $26.95, 224 pages. The message of Bob Johansen’s Leaders Make the Future is simple: Our world is characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (negative VUCA). In order for this state of affairs to give way to vision, understanding, clarity, and agility (positive VUCA), leaders need to develop ten skills: 1. Maker instinct: ability to exploit the inner drive to grow things 2. Clarity: ability to see a future others cannot yet see 3. Dilemma flipping: ability to turn dilemmas into opportunities … Continue reading “Leaders Make the Future” by Bob Johansen