The World we are in today COVID-19, a coronavirus pandemic with the absence of precedence, has imposed critical changes to human behaviors such as the restriction of social congregation, resulting businesses to temporary shutdown and has upended most business models; concurrently, has rendered some unresponsive companies out-of-business. In such unprecedented situation, “business and society are two…

Ambidextrous Leadership Behaviors As the world becomes more VUCA, leaders are finding hard to transform and keeping their current business afloat concurrently. This article aims to explore ways to instill an ambidextrous culture within organizations and develop related leadership behaviors to ambidexterity. The leader is adapting to the changing environment nimbly, and constantly…

It is important to recognize your operating context, especially in a VUCA environment, as many companies has spiraled down the unilluminated abyss of fallacy by either over-analyzing or overly dependent on weak heuristics in their decision-making when navigating their operating context. Understanding The Cynefin Framework Looking from a broader perspective, Snowden and Boone (2007)…

Understanding People as a Key Leadership Behavior Especially today, one of the biggest challenges leaders faced is the ability to understand their team members at a deeper level in order to lead them towards a common goal. This article targets to present another lens to help leaders better thrive in knowing those who matters. The leader demonstrates…

Distributed Leadership for the new Era In an era of continuous change and uncertainty, stakeholders’ requirements become more complex. In order to meet those requirements, our team needs to be agile and adaptable as a whole and this is enabled by the leader taking a distributed leadership initiative. For task accomplishment, the leader delegates the decision-making…

Leadership Behaviors for the Adaptive Space Many organizations understand the need to be adaptable, especially with the recent encounter of a pandemic. The VUCA world can only be more VUCA moving forward. Lots of leaders lack the framework and/or culture to be adaptable. An adaptive leader must embrace these behaviors consequently. The leader provides people from…

Continuous Learner Leadership Behaviors Sometimes, procrastination and sluggish leadership are not due to the leaders’ attitude. “Lack of knowledge… that is the problem” — W. Edwards Deming A successful leader demonstrate these behaviors: The leader is continuously honing the soft skill, hard skills and digital skills, staying up-to-date of the social, technological, economics, environmental…

Transformational Behaviors When you have a grand vision, that’s step 1. The next step is to inspire your people to march forward in achieving that vision. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” — Salvador Dali Similarly, leadership is not about crafting the best vision…

Times like today call for someone with grit to navigate the dense forest of complexity and construct a path novel enough to breakthrough. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” — Jim Watkins. A leader with tenacity demonstrates the following behaviors. The…