Live and lead in complexity

We often complain about ‘lack of leadership’ being it at a workplace or in a broader context. The cutting-edge leadership research is about understanding the leadership capability that can address multiple social, environmental, and economic challenges of a system, in a truly integrative manner.

• What kind of leadership is needed to facilitate alignment and integration in Europe?

 In the heart of the modern leadership quest rests the human “mindset” – the lens through which we see the world, the settings that help us interpret and give meaning to what we see and hear. Our mindset makes us prioritize some things and filters away others. Consequently, it makes us plan and act in certain ways. Two things become obvious:

• Individual leadership capability is a function of the leader’s mindset
• Collective performance is contingent on the aggregated leadership capabilities put in action, and thus on the leaders’ mindsets and meaning-making patterns.

 Questions to ask ourselves:

• How do I make sense of what is happening?
• What future am I working for? How do I know that?
• What is my contribution today? Can I increase my impact?
• What about my way to lead and how does it affect the system?

 More will be added to this chapter

 Unfortunately, the covid-19 pandemic resulted in a cancelled Modul 6 in the EUSBSR SUPPORT programme. Just a small part of the planned programme could be held online. The EUSBSR SUPPORT was finalized on 30 April 2020 so there were no option to postpone the Module. This last Module was supposed to have focus on leadership. However, the team of experts connected to EUSBSR SUPPORT will later in 2020 add information to this section, complete the 1st version of the TOOLBOX.