VUCA-WORLDUnderstand, think and act VUCA!
Understand, think and act VUCA! Dealing with a made-up word from the last century holds contemporary solutions for the age of digitalization.
Blog: VUCA Blog
Why becoming a VUKA Facilitator®️
If you want to respond to today's challenges, you inevitably ask yourself the following question: "Isn't it enough to attend an Agile Framework training or read a book about transformation and then just get started?
VUCA, BANI, RUPT or TUNA
Where do the terms "VUCA" and "BANI" come from? And who knows RUPT and TUNA? VUCA Positive Prime? It would be unwise to send the terms and the ideas behind them into competition with each other.
How do I invent a traffic jam?
How do I invent a traffic jam? Article by Christian Schwedler Expert + Speaker for Ambidexterity & Ambidextry - Let's remember more often: the truth is rarely black or white, but mostly gray, or colorful.
Radical leadership in radical times
Georgiy Michailov - From VUCA to TUNA? It gradually crept its way into management literature and is still widely used today to describe the ever more complex, ever faster moving world. But I am starting to like another acronym developed in Oxford in the UK even more: TUNA.
The US military did not invent the term VUCA!
Why is the origin of VUCA often associated with the US military? Mike Schindler (Award-winning author) gives me a concrete answer in our last conversation: "Military is never reactive. It's always responsive!" It's about preparation, anticipation, exploration, evaluation, adaptation.
Empowering people to cope with the VUCA through three elements
Article by Dr. Stefanie Puckett - We observe nimble, innovative startups and look at large yet agile companies. They found a way to empower their people to deal with VUCA challenges, and it is grounded in their working culture. The three elements that determine their success provide an orientation for our own day to day work life.
The Great Conversation
The premise of a great conversation is that ideas will change the world. Harnessing the ideas and then discussing their practical application can change market ecosystems. We have been pursuing the guides that can help us be better leaders in this VUCA world, and we found another in Germany: Waltraud Glaeser.
It’s VUCA – the film
We live in an age of crushing change and uncertainty that bombards us with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, fear, anxiety - and distrust. There is a name for this: IT'S VUCA. VUCA isn't just the problem...it's also the solution.
At kickoff complexity
As a coach of field hockey teams I acted for years in so called #VUKA contexts. Article by Stefan Kermas - Train Your Business
Where does the term “VUCA” come from?
VUCA is an acronym The acronym VUCA is composed of the four terms volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
The “OODA loop” – Strategy for the VUCA business world
Article by Dr. Jürgen Scherer - The U.S. Army War College coined the term VUCA in the late 80s addressing volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous conditions. Less known in this context is the impact of the legendary US Air Force fighter pilot John R. Boyd (1927 - 1997), who developed the so-called “O-O-D-A loop”: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Boyd’s influence not only revolutionized military strategy, but also formed the basis of a profound business strategy in response to VUCA times.
This Is Why 1 Tool No Longer Works
Article by Tim Nash - Your team is separated by country, culture and language. It’s also a mix of generations. Nevertheless, you need to do something ASAP to increase trust and improve teamwork.
Videos: Coaching Culture – Success Factor for the VUCA world
Together with the h_da, University of Applied Science in Darmstadt Axel Klimek and colleagues have conducted a study on, to what degree organizations have installed a Coaching Culture and how that helps them with the challenges of the VUCA world.
Interview: How do you lead back from the home office?
Britta Müller (BM) from the Coaching Gesellschaft team interviews Waltraud Gläser (WG), process facilitator, initiator and owner of the popular website vuca-world.org, about what this means for cooperation and how managers can deal appropriately with the return from the home office. Waltraud Gläser works with her clients as a process facilitator in change processes and runs the website vuca-world.org as an expert.
The current corona crisis in VUCA times
VUCA is the acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The current corona crisis shows very clearly how well VUCA reflects the current reality. (Article by Jan Bauer)
The world after Corona
I am often asked these days when Corona will "be over" and everything will return to normal. My answer: Never. There are historical moments when the future changes direction. We call them bifurcations. Or deep crises. These times are now.
View of a VUCA world
People determine the success of every company. This requires the right framework conditions under which each individual can and may contribute his or her skills and services in the sense of agreed – more qualitative and quantitative – results.
The permission to discharge
Why a boss has to give himself permission to be exonerated. Again and again we read about what a boss should do in order to have motivated employees and principles like agile working in an organization become possible at all.
Useful navigation in VUCA times
Management 4.0 and sensible navigation in VUCA times Charles Handy, the acknowledged social philosopher and management thinker, put it even more clearly in his keynote speech when he spoke of the rethinkable sequence of key factors for the success of a company: People, profit and passion.