How to lead in a VUCA world? Most companies have been designed for a paradigm before the big shift. This requires complex transformation in order to anticipate on constant change. In the meanwhile, what can we as individuals do to accelerate change? How do we learn to lead pull programs when we have been in traditional management for years? This talk covers the context of pull, the impact for organisations and what you can do about it.

1. Network leadership
How to lead in a VUCA world
Rogier Schmit, 20 June 2018
1Photo by José Martín Ramírez C on Unsplash

2. Speed course ‘network leadership’
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Look at the future
How this impacts leadership in
organizations What you can do

3. Pleased to meet you
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@rogierschmit

4. What we know about the future (86% accuracy)
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Source: http://www.kurzweilai.net/exponential-
growth-of-computing

5. Everything becomes digitized
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Source: BestReviews.com

6. All companies become IT companies
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7. All companies become IT companies
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8. What jobs will not become IT jobs?
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11. Airbnb built an AI that turns design
sketches into product source code
Source: TN W ,
July 2017
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12. Virtual interfaces on the rise
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Cicret smart bracelet

13. Digital platforms dominate
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14. From ‘can we do it’ to ‘do we want it’
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15. How this impacts leadership
& organisations
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16. Companies want to be a Digital Master
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17. But most companies were designed
before the Big Shift
Push programs
Top down design
Centralized control
Participation restricted
Extrinsic rewards
Efficiency focus - Business Case
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Pull programs
Emergent design
Decentralized initiative
Open participation
Intrinsic rewards
Innovation focus - Go figure

18. Learning to lead Pull programs is like…
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19. The soul of Scrum inspires Pull
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The heart and soul of
scrum is to view people as
creative, intelligent
responsible individuals
rather then executive
radars in a machine
Source: Scrum, aPocket Guide

20. Push and Pull in practise
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21. How knowledge workers become the
best they can be
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22. How most companies work
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23. 4 Enemies of change in organisations
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25. What you can do
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26. Strategy ‘Nederland Digitaal’
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Staatssecretaris Raymond Knops (BZK):
“Digitalisering biedt kansen
voor het oplossen van
maatschappelijke
vraagstukken. Daarvoor
moeten we als overheid
durven te experimenteren en
de luiken openzetten.

27. 1. Create open collaboration programs
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28. It helps everyone to stay fit
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29. 2. Learn to experiment with limited cost
and downward risk
Website experiments are antifragile as at low cost
(limited pain) you can run multiple tests simultaneously
and exponentially increase your potential gainSource: Antifragile by N. Taleb
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30. Visual and Video Experiment
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32. 3. Train a growth mindset
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33. To lead people as intelligent, creative,
responsible individuals, we need to..
• Support open collaboration, experimenting and innovation
• Find and provide collaborative goals or purpose
• Provide autonomy in doing a job
• Consider work and learning as interdependent
• Stimulate people to do work they have not yet done before
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34. What to do in a world of VUCA?
§ Program yourself to always keep learning
§ Stay connected with the world outside, collaborate
§ Constantly test your assumptions, enjoy being ignorant!
§ Ask for help in growing talents &
business results, making change happen
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35. THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!Thank you for your attention!