Navigating uncertainty with an adaptive mindset

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Date: 01/05/2024

We never know when a crisis is going to happen; like a pandemic, a war, or a GFC-like event; but when it does happen, it can have a huge impact on the leaders and the team. So how can you prepare for an unknown disaster?

It helps to have an adaptive mindset insists Prof Martin Bean, CEO of The Bean Centre, and former Vice Chancellor of RMIT University during the lockdown days of COVID-19. He has co-authored a book, 'Toolkit for Turbulence: The mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage'. An adaptive mindset, he says, equips you and your team to deal with fast and unpredictable change, to navigate in uncertainty, to collaborate on complex entangled problems, and to embrace ambiguity and paradoxes.

Prof Martin Bean, The Bean Centre