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I started talking last week about the acronym VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. I’m sure we can all relate to how this describes the world that each of our organizations live in.
I’m offering a replacement for VUCA which tells us how to navigate through all this instability. V was for Values, U is for … Uplift.
That’s because one of the biggest issues we’re dealing with is fear and morale.
Read the rest of this entry »In 1987, Warren Bennis and Burt Nanu created the term VUCA to describe the leadership challenges created from a world which was increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. It became more popular because the acronym captured some of the tension that people were feeling in many industries and organizations.
There’s no question that most of us are experiencing this.
How do we deal with it? In the coming weeks, I’ll introduce you to a replacement VUCA which leads you to constructive action. It starts with Values.
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The work is never done. Ever.
It’s a fact of our modern life, really. And I’m sure you feel this in your business; there’s an infinite supply of stuff to be done and things to worry about.
The question is, though: What really matters?
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There are times when your business is facing the truly big choices.
M&A (mergers & acquisitions) or taking your company public are the events that bring lots of press attention, but for a smaller company there are many more modest examples:
- Hiring your first employee
- Putting a management layer in for the first time
- Retiring from your business
- Expanding from single-location to multiple-location
SOME THINGS ARE really hard to nail down.
One of the biggest examples is how complicated business decisions are made, like taking on a partner or promoting an employee. There’s this amorphous mix of logic, feelings, history, and unique factors you never would have planned for.
When this happens, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten too immersed in the details, and need to go up a level.
THE WORLD SEEMS like it’s sliding all over the place. Things we assumed were solid and unchanging are being constantly questioned.
Even my kids have noticed.
The honest truth, though, is that your business foundation is as solid as you want it to be.
RUNNING A BUSINESS can feel pretty isolated.
Even when you’re surrounded by employees, teams, partners, suppliers, contractors … it can feel like the weight of the whole world is on your shoulders. Because all of them seem to look to you for direction and answers.
And you don’t want to burden your loved ones with business concerns: it seems unfair.
The Values-Based Business 