Strategy #4 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
If you could do it alone, you would have already achieved what you needed to achieve! But in the era of acceleration, the world is far too complex to navigate on your own. The only solution? Partner up! That’s leadership strategy #4 in my series of how to deal with the speed of change today! Over a 25 year career advising some of the most complex organizations in the world about the future - including NASA, twice! - I’ve come to observe that the biggest issue they face has to do with getting the right skills, at the right time, for the right purpose. The issue of skills complexity is massive - there is so much new knowledge coming about, at an absolutely staggering pace - that organizations can no longer do it on their own - they need new partnerships, and need them fast, to deal with the scope of the knowledge and complexity challenge that exists. Hence, experts on penguins. Watch this keynote clip that features a variety of talks where I’m leading into the issue of skills…