This article is excerpted from the first chapter of Bobbie LaPorte’s new leadership book, When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World. There is no question that the requirements for strategic leadership are changing in an uncertain environment. In the past world of certainty, leaders could rely on being experts in a specific functional area.
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How to Lead When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Here is another “sneak peek” from the first chapter of Bobbie LaPorte’s upcoming book, Leadership Curveballs, Blind Spots and Black Holes:As leaders in an uncertain environment, we rarely have the answers our teams expect from us and trying to “spin” how we respond, pretending that we do have the answers will not help us. We don’t know where to turn for support for fear of seeming week and irrelevant, even as our natural networks of supporters disappear.
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