Has Your Leadership Evolved For The New Normal? January 4, 2019 by Jeff Hurt Change is hard. Foresight—looking forward—is hard. Why? Because we prefer certainty and concreteness to ambiguity and abstraction. Becoming a new normal leader requires shifting your perspective. It means becoming biased towards consistent, persistent evolution, not inclined to keep things the way they are which results in stagnant-status-quo-sameness. Your organization’s sustainable success depends upon you transforming … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , 21st Century mindset, ambigious, association leaders, board, board of directors, complex, exponential change, leadership, new normal, uncertain, volatile, VUCA
On Becoming A New Normal Leader January 3, 2019 by Jeff Hurt It’s a common, well-accepted, well-worn and overused term: the New Normal. It’s also stealthily deceptive and destructive. It’s critical that successful leaders understand that linear thinking is just an exit ramp in a world of exponential change. Many of today’s leaders, especially association board of directors and CEOs, think that the new normal will eventually … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , 21st Century mindset, association leaders, board, board of directors, curate experiences, curate the future, curation, exponential change, hockey stick curve, leader as curator, linear thinking, new normal