8 MENTAL MODELS FOR WISDOM LEADERSHIP IN A VUCA WORLD

Wise leaders build agile, inclusive and sustainable businesses. But how can you do that in times of crisis?

Here are 8 mental models for building inner resilience to take responsible and sustainable actions in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) situations.

When it comes to situations like the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, and other societal challenges at a global scale, we don’t need leaders, who only rely on their survival instincts or find opportunistic ways to leverage a crisis.

We need leaders, who consciously use their intuition, logic, and their emotions to choose appropriate emergency responses. We need wise leaders.

Why? Because wise CEOs create the best results in both the short and long term for the benefit of both society and the bottom line.

That’s at least the conclusion of a survey of 100 CEO emergency responses over the past 30 years, conducted by Navi Radjou and Prasad Kaipa, who are also co-authors of “From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading With Wisdom” >

8 MENTAL MODELS FOR WISDOM LEADERSHIP

In their article, Leading with your heart and mind, Radjou and Kaipa show how wise CEOs like Unilever’s Paul Polman and companies like Siemens and Danone are transforming their businesses into wise enterprises.

But what can a wise leader concretely do on a personal level to build inner resilience for taking responsible and sustainable actions in challenging times?

We’ve put together 8 mental models for wisdom leadership in co-creation with leadership transformation expert, Sandja Brügmann, The Passion Institute >