Tenacity! An Important Leadership Strength.

Tovar (2016) describes volatility as a brutal increase in four dimensions of the changes that we face today: the type, speed, volume, and scale; and uncertainty as a result of the volatility, we are unable to predict future events. Complexity is a widespread confusion, with no clear connection between cause and effect, affects all organizations nowadays; and ambiguity is a lack of precision, and the existence of multiple meanings within the conditions surrounding us. Carla et al. (2018) then explain the possibility of leaders giving up in a VUCA context due to the following underperformance.

• Uncertainty: Characteristic of a situation in which the problem solver considers the structure of the problem (including the set of relevant variables) as given but is dissatisfied with his or her knowledge of the value of these variables.
• Ambiguity level 1: Characteristic of a situation in which the problem solver considers the set of potentially relevant variables as given. The relationships between the variables and the problem-solving algorithm are perceived as in need of determination.
• Ambiguity level 2: Characteristic of a situation in which the set of relevant variables as well as their functional relationship and the problem-solving algorithm are seen as in need of determination.