Surely they should have seen that coming? Why? We can only ever be certain the future is uncertain. We can never know the exact shape of all that will pop up. Our world is in constant flux. Guarantees are fundamentally flawed. What if something happens to the guarantor? And anyway, how boring would life be if everything was certain? Yet we do have some control.
We have levers at our disposal that may work in our unique situation when we need them. And our situation is always unique. Better to have something that may work than nothing at all eh?
We can choose to prepare ourselves to be prepared to embrace, navigate and respond as best we can to whatever may arrive, announced or otherwise, at our door. The knowledge we seek, the skills we develop and the mindsets we consciously adopt are important elements in our personal portfolio. They shape our ability to deal with it, whatever it may be.
Mental models and frameworks can support us in all this. They accelerate our ability to make sense of changing situations and help us make decisions in an agile way. I’ve had as unconventional a conventional business career as one is likely to have. A variety of roles across the world. High growth, turnarounds, low growth, new ventures, challenging issues, change, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, executive, non executive, line management, consulting, audits, customer facing, back office, large corporates, tiny businesses, start ups, mature markets, developing markets. I use and continue to evolve mental models and frameworks that encapsulate the lessons I learn and approaches I find help me.
Please Note: All Outperformance Highway leadership programmes are based on PPMCLeadership™️.
'Rob I love that - question - can organisations build mental frameworks? So a whole team thinks using frameworks? Individual to each person but creating a symmetry of how a team thinks and acts? A whole leadership team or a department?'
- Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer
'Thanks Chris Gabriel yes very much so. An example is PPMCLeadership™️, a helpful leadership mental framework for organisations and teams, regardless of scale. It can be applied to a whole organisation, the workings of a leadership team, a department or a small team within a department. It’s a holistic big picture framework with many constituent elements and reflects the recurrent ingredients in successful teams.'
- Rob Evans, Outperformance Highway