Blessed and honored to host this session with my mentor in all things Complexity related, Dave Snowden definitely delivered a wealth of genius for every leader to hear.

In this episode Dave and I explore his current work with the Cynefin Centre, Crisis Management, Mass Sense Making and the new leadership skills required to better support organizations in the present moment and through their innovation / evolution of tomorrows strategies. He also speaks about upcoming publications and books.

We explore a vast array of topics including, inattentional blindness, maverick thinking, outliers and their untapped value to their organizations, how best to leverage linkages and entanglement as a means to sense make.

We also explored the differences between nudging the system, incremental change, when to be Agile and when to be waterfall. Dave provides a significant eye opener in this section for those organizations that think the entire organization must be Agile; where in fact, you need to understand the value and methods of being Agile – and use them only when called for – as opposed to all day / every day as a way of doing business. In closing, Dave also speaks about the skills required to be a more efficient Organizational Development professional – as well as a Consultant (internally or externally). There are so many wonderful nuggets of wisdom in this episode. Please leave comments if you have taken anything away from it.