Leadership Toolbox 1: Building an Ambidextrous Culture

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 shares the vision of exploiting the business-as-usual operations and exploring new terrains for continual transformation with the team, department or organization.
• The leader is involved in projects that are improving the current business or operations, and projects that develop innovations and transformation.

Organizational Ambidexterity — a Short Overview by Steve Blank

Before we start to assess ourselves in terms of how ambidextrous we are as an organization, let’s hear from Steve on his concise take on the subject.