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Leadership Without
Losing Your Soul

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Business of Ambiguity

Leading Through Ambiguity with Dr. Debbie Sutherland

by | Mar 18, 2022 | Podcast |

Have you ever been faced with a puzzling pattern of events, been stuck in a confusing situation, or felt trapped by your own routine thinking patterns? Or have you wondered about how you think and make decisions during messy and unexpected situations? Then you’re familiar with the challenges of leading through ambiguity.

In this episode, Dr. Debbie Sutherland gives you five key thinking and behavior strategies to explore business uncertainties and build an ambiguity mindset. Using research and powerful real-life stories from dozens of executives whose roles involve a high degree of ambiguity, Dr. Sutherland provides tools, resources, and insights to help you increase your comfort with the unknowns. If you are a business leader who wants to expand your thinking and ability to lead through ambiguity, someone who wants to explore a knowing gap in life or business, this episode is for you.

Leading Through Ambiguity

2:23 – The Business of Ambiguity is backed by an incredible amount of research and interviewing as well as being very practical.

7:05 – The frustrations and observations that led Dr. Sutherland to research ambiguity and ultimately write the book

11:34 – What is ambiguity?

12:07 – Why ambiguity is stressful and how it causes some leaders to “lose their soul” when leading through ambiguity

14:07 – Change is a constant.

17:14 – The critical role of reflection and thinking about the whole system as you lead through ambiguity

18:10 – Individual behavior is a function of the system they’re in

19:27 – How building connectivity throughout the business helps everyone navigate the challenges of ambiguity

22:05 – How leaders can avoid getting stuck in the trap of their own competence

24:14 – How to create the deep networks that help you lead effectively

26:56 – A practical activity to help you build your self-awareness

27:49 – The role of objective post-project reflection

32:34 – How to develop comfort with the unknown (a key characteristic for leading through ambiguity.)

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David Dye helps human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results.  He’s the President of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick. He’s the award-winning author of four books including Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict, and hosts the popular Leadership without Losing Your Soul podcast. David is a former executive and elected official. David and his wife and business partner, Karin Hurt, are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells – building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.

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