Cultural leadership in powerful times

One consequence of the emergency is a crisis of effectiveness. Today’s world brings new and unprecedented challenges. It also requires us to adapt to change faster than is comfortable, or in many cases possible. Radical interconnectedness means everything impacts on everything else. Actions can have as many unintended consequences as intended consequences.

Attempts to connect and reconnect silos of specialist knowledge and expertise in order to grasp this new complexity merely add to the problem, and introduce new costs of coordination.  Problems are often ill-defined, ill-structured social messes. Planning seems futile and ineffective, yet it is all we have.