A person needs to work 80-100 hours per week to change the world. Elon Musk tweet ‘Working 9 to 5 is For Losers’ was the title of a recent New York Times article.[i] VUCANs have picked up this mantra from Elon Musk, today’s Thomas Edison. Elon in the U.S. is the hero of a generation of ‘crushers’, entrepreneurial startup workers. …
As the Working It title says: Disruption Rules. However, would you like to work for a disruptive boss, which seems to be management style adopted by many leaders and managers. Let’s look at this a little closely. “Casting oneself as a disruptive leader is in vogue these days, suggesting a bold, take-no-prisoners management style that …
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. Steve Jobs – Apple Founder & CEO COVID is presenting a burning question: ‘What’s better, beings a VUCAN leader or a manager?’ I’ve observed first level supervisors, managers, and executives work their magic. …
You’re not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You’re doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it’s harder to do, but ultimately, if it’s successful, the impact it has is far greater. Steve Case – Entrepreneur VUCAN leadership: you know it when you see it. Think …
Lengthy reigns at the top may be the next thing to get disrupted. Carol Ryan – Wall Street Journal Writer What’s the CEO’s role in COVID time? “Point people to the light at the end of the tunnel” according to the Wall Street Journal.[i] The challenge: many CEO’S are unfit for VUCA duty. In other words, …
You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated. Tom Preston-Werner – Software Developer Robots are coming. Robots and smart machines are doing a lot of our work and will do a lot more over the next year. Take a look below: Machineswill do 52% of worker tasks by 2025. Startups are re-visioning the entire food …
VUCAN DRIVERS – PEOPLE Old Norm New Norm This too shall pass Constant transformation here to stay Industrial robots are static – ‘pick and place’, ‘welding’ robots Commercial and cobots are flexible, smart, adaptive, and learning Individual leadership Collective leadership MBA Just-in-time work learning Brick and mortar education MOOC and online education Fact based education …
This element of the 7P’s framework deals with people or VUCANs. Work is all about people. At the end of a long day, you work with and for people. You share ideas with people. You plan, direct, organize, and deliver with people. You innovate new products. You service people – your customers. The VUCAN or people element is probably the …
Do you want to be a manager? What leadership abilities do you have or want to have? Can you change workplace roles, as a manager, leader or coach? What makes you change roles? Do you react or respond to change? What’s your value proposition at work? What do you think could be your ‘value proposition’? …
You can and should shape your own future; because if you don’t someone else surely will. Joel Barker A number of years ago, I worked for a company and as long as I kept my nose clean, I was ensured employment as long as I wanted it. My first employer viewed ‘womb to tomb’ …