Date: 1/31/2019

Title: LEADING THROUGH A FAST FUTURE – Part 2

By: Bryan Arzani

In their book Whiplash: How to Survive a Faster Future, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe proclaim that leadership is seeing the world in new ways. They offer 9 principles to survive in this fast world, create your environment to what you want it to be, and to thrive. The 9 principles are:

• Emergence over authority
• Pull over push
• Compasses over maps
• Risk over safety
• Disobedience over compliance
• Practice over theory
• Diversity over ability
• Resilience over strength
• Systems over objects

We’re going to apply principles 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 to our discussion of becoming better leaders. Pull over push represents two divergent views of decision making: push—all resources are pushed to where the decision makers believe they could be used best. This approach is cumbersome. The best use of human resources is to pull them into a project….using just what’s needed; when it’s needed. Think of the energy you’ll save from not putting people on a project just because “they might be able to offer something” or because “they are the head of that department”. Following the idea of pull – using just what’s needed, when it’s needed – will create a more engaged team.

To learn more about how to practice this understanding, contact Results Group, LLC at www.ResultsGroupLLC.com or 515-330-2866.