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Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World

Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World

by Bob Johansen

Berrett-koehler | May 1, 2009 | Hardcover

What future forces will affect a leader''s ability to lead in the next year, 5 years, 10 years? Futurist author of Get There Early, Bob Johansen, and the Institute for the Future have the answer. In Leaders Make The Future, Johansen identifies the 10 new skills leaders will need to overcome the challenges posed by these future forces including processing overwhelming amounts of information, handling unsolvable problems, and coordinating large and complex global networks of people. In each chapter, Johansen explores a new leadership skill, illustrates why it will become crucial, and teaches how to learn and implement the skill to survive and thrive as a leader well into 2018. We live in a VUCA world, says Johansen, a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Leaders Make The Future provides guidance for navigating this world, and the world to come.

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What future forces will affect a leader''s ability to lead in the next year, 5 years, 10 years? Futurist author of Get There Early, Bob Johansen, and the Institute for the Future have the answer. In Leaders Make The Future, Johansen identifies the 10 new skills leaders will need to overcome the challenges posed by these future forces including processing overwhelming amounts of information, handling unsolvable problems, and coordinating large and complex global networks of people. In each chapter, Johansen explores a new leadership skill, illustrates why it will become crucial, and teaches how to learn and implement the skill to survive and thrive as a leader well into 2018. We live in a VUCA world, says Johansen, a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Leaders Make The Future provides guidance for navigating this world, and the world to come.

About the Author

BOB JOHANSEN was president and CEO of the Institute for the Future (IFTF) from 1996 to 2004 and now is on the Institute''s Board and Leadership Team. IFTF is the premier research and consulting organization in the world.

Hardcover

288 Pages, 6.36 x 9.37 x 0.81 in

May 1, 2009

Berrett-koehler

English


1605090026
9781605090023

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