Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System—and so are the people you lead. Many leaders expect an organization to operate like a machine, but that leads to failure. Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success.
In this episode, Anu Rathninde, president of Aptiv Electrical Distribution Systems-Asia Pacific, shares his practical strategy for tackling complexity in the Knowledge Era. Bridging ancient Asian wisdom and modern science, this guide leverages the best leadership philosophies with the right mindset to help you tackle complexity, manage yourself as you manage others, and transform your organization by putting people, decisions, and interactions first. Learn how to make complexity an advantage and how to embrace it.
Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty
04:46 What is the difference between complex and complicated?
09:16 How complicated things can be fixed and often have something like a user manual, and complex systems have no user manual.
19:44 We have a fundamental responsibility as human beings to manage ourselves so that we don’t do damage to our society and humanity.
19:50 Combining the fundamental humanity of Eastern learning with the science, and methodologies of the Western side of learning.
21:14 Complexity is the reality. What is the approach recommended for leaders to take?
24:19 Organizations have a mindset, and underneath that mindset is leadership.
34:19 What are the internal motivations that drive healthy, productive leaders who can address complexity and show up every day to do that?
43:43 The five elements in this approach to complexity.
43:50 Why every other leadership skill will become obsolete over time except learning?
48:07 There’s no perfect organization and no matter which way we organize every value creation job is done cross-functionally.
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