Tag Archive for: Puk Falkenberg

VUCA

Maybe you’ve heard it before; ‘we’re living in a VUCA world’. But what does VUCA actually mean, and why are we using it to describe the world we live in?

We’ve made a status on Future of Work highlighting four things we see right now: Pace of change, digitalization, way of organize and the millennial mindset.

It’s hard work to create a safe space for your team. It is equally hard to maintain and nurture this safe space when first created.

The reasons to actually choose your own boss and mentor is clear: It gives you, as an employee, the CHOICE to choose from whom you can learn the most.

It’s easy. It’s a minimal amount of effort and stuff you need. Basically, just post-its, black pens and wall space. If you really want to go all in, I’ll recommend you find one of those small whiteboards or a flip over.

When organizations have the ability to adapt and drive internal change fast and often, they have a change capability as organizational core.

We need to look at the difference between pushing and pulling. Push sounds a lot like command-and-control, while pull sounds more engaging.

Most organizations are running like machines. They are effective. They are optimized. They run perfectly in a stable world where they can keep doing what they do best. But that’s not always enough.

The development team was already using Scrum as agile practice, but the rest of the organization didn’t know the first thing about agile practices.

Special: Global Peter Drucker Forum 2018 – Day 2

Get our take-homes from day 2, about capabilities, risks and uncertainty, mistakes, strategic choices – and being hungry and foolish!