We are living through a time of extraordinary change. And just like the growth of Covid-19, the rate that change is still accelerating.
If we want to live well through these changes we can’t simply do more of what worked in the past. We need a new approach to leading ourselves, and others, through times of change.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s third book gives us a hint of what this new approach could look like. In it, he invents a new word: ‘antifragile’.
Summarising his argument, Taleb says that:
- Things, people, and organisations that break under stress we call ‘fragile’
- Things, people, and organisations that do not break under stress we call ‘strong’, ‘robust’, or ‘resilient’
- So let’s invent a new word for things, people, and organisations that actually become stronger under stress. And let’s call this word: “anti-fragile”
The Churning, Inner Leadership describes a framework and a set of tools that you can use to become antifragile: able not only to survive the changes that are coming but actually to use those changes to become stronger and more valuable.
Because only when our response to any new challenge is simply to use it to become clearer and more certain about what we most want, and more able to achieve that — only then will this time of Churning come to an end.
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Adapted from Inner Leadership: a framework and tools for building inspiration in times of change.
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