We have talked for a long time about VUCA conditions - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It's a powerful concept, although up to now has been more a concept than a considered reality.
In the UK, that changed last Thursday, and the probability is that we're only just getting going, and if we think it will somehow be limited to the UK, I suspect we will be very mistaken. One can sense the flocks of black swans gathering on the horizon.
The result is that we are now in the dragon manufacturing business. Our limbic systems go into overdrive, and we create all manner of monsters, rather as Navigators of old labelled unexplored areas “here be dragons”
The conditions may indeed be difficult, induced other monsters we created, but that is n reason for us to give them the credence we gave them.
Our biggest challenge is to move our mindsets away from one of dependence on others, through to establishing individual independence, and using that independence as a platform to work with others …
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