There is a void of leadership following the pandemic, and everything feels uncertain. That uncertainty – precarity – is an area of study for generative leadership specialist Kathleen Curran.

Kathleen defines herself as an “explorer with purpose”, and helps people not only bring their whole self to work, but fully inhabit it. She is a co-author on a book about precarity, with her contribution focusing on the word of certainty and normalcy that opened in the wake of the global pandemic.

Takeaways from Dan and Pia

• The void in leadership opened by the pandemic is still in place today.
• It’s sometimes necessary for those without traditional leadership positions to step up, to do the work that needs to be done.
• There is a disconnect in the communication of our need for connection, between anecdotal conversations and data collected on teams.

Links

• Precarity
• Find Kathleen on LinkedIn
• Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative
• Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis, by Samantha Montano
• VUCA: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
• Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen, by Rita McGrath
• Enough Leadership. Time for Communityship, a blog post by Henry Mintzberg
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