Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.
Jay Samit – Entrepreneur
Decision making in VUCA time often focuses on downside consequences and is fear based. Fear based choices are a form of doom addiction. We become addicted to watching, tweeting, or listening to online grim-reaper news – one after another. It’s called ‘doom scrolling’ or ‘doom surfing’. Algorithms exacerbate this. Continue reading
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson – U.S. President
The other day, my wife and daughter were out to dinner at an outside local pizza bar. The place was busy. The server was a masked tattoo’ed millennial. She was part-owner of the restaurant. The tattoo across her forearm read: ‘Love the process’. Her process was her work. Her passion. Her work affirmation. Maybe, her calling – her true north. True north is a compass metaphor for finding your true path in life and at work. Continue reading
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy – President of the U.S.
In VUCA time, the expression ‘what got you here – won’t get you there’ is particularly applicable. First of all, we don’t know what ‘there’ is in terms of the ‘new normal’. Second, we don’t know the new things we need to do or learn to do to get us somewhere new. I like books that ‘tell it like it is.’ No sugar coating risks and bad behaviors. Marshall Goldsmith – the executive coach – came up with 20 pre-COVID career and work killers: Continue reading
The comprehensive, even sweeping, set of guidelines for artificial intelligence that the White House unveiled in an executive order on Oct. 30, 2023, show that the U.S. government is attempting to address the risks posed by AI.
As a researcher of information systems and responsible AI, I believe the executive order represents an important step in building responsible and trustworthy AI. Continue reading
Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith.
Cheryl Strayed – Writer
Millennial workers from 18 to 37 are twice as likely to be uncomfortable with VUCA. Dictionary.com says “the world Gen Z has inherited is one of unprecedented chaos.” (1) Millennials and Gen Z workers may be the new precariat. Continue reading