Now that the world is so interconnected, complex, and transparent, leaders are required to lead these networks with profoundly new beliefs and behaviors. Leaders need to rely on human goodness; to depend on diversity; to trust people’s good intentions. Leaders need to support people to dwell in the complexity rather than search for simple cause and effect or scapegoats. And they need to offer work that is meaningful not just to the individual, but to the greater good. What do we now know about managing in a complex world, and are we willing to alter our beliefs and practices to align with those learnings?
Participants in this program will learn:
- Acquire new competencies required of great leaders
- Develop an understanding of how to lead in a networked world
- Determine from your own experience what brings out the very best in people
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Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She works to create organizations of all types worthy of human habitation, where people are seen as the blessing, not the problem. She is president of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation, and was an organizational consultant for many years, as well as a professor of management in two graduate programs. Her work appears in two award-winning books, Leadership and the New Science and A Simpler Way (co-authored with Myron Kellner-Rogers) plus several videos and articles. She draws many of her ideas from new science and life’s ability to organize in self organizing, systemic, and cooperative modes.