Vuca World Quotes

In our UN-VICE world (UNknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex & Exponential), the lines between the present and future are becoming blurred, more liminal.

Pass the Ball Enlightened leaders deliberately hand over responsibility in order to create engaged team-players able to adapt their approach to suit the conditions. ‘Command & Control’ in a VUCA world is unwieldy and increasingly uncompetitive.

the recently minted military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). They

It’s not getting any easier to win in the real world. The new normal is, to borrow a phrase from the US military, a VUCA environment: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Growth is slowing, and the pace of change is increasing.

Companies that do not anticipate the conditions of the VUCA world are on a direct path to losing their competitiveness.

Perhaps most stunning thing about the VW emissions debacle is that it's by no means a singular event. The same script – unreachable target goals, a command-and-control hierarchy that motivates by fear, and people afraid to lose their jobs if they fail – has been repeated again and again. In part that's because it's a script that was useful in the past, when goals were reachable, progress directly observable, and tasks largely individually executed. Under those conditions, people could be compelled to reach them simply by fear and intimidation. The problem is that, in today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, this is no longer a script that's good for business. Rather than success, it's a playbook that invites avoidable, and often painfully public, failure.

When making decisions facing VUCA, it all comes down to applying the circle of prudence: explore the memory of your past experience, exercise judgement of the present situation, ask for advice (if applicable), make a decision and act

VUCA World—an environment of nonstop volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Volatile Uncertain Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) environment. It’s a world defined by variability and constant change.