Future leadership attributes required for rapid change
*ability to see the whole system, not just the enterprise, and how it relates to other enterprises, the local and global economies, the emerging future and the past conditions
*ability to empower others to lead, make decisions and take full responsibility for their actions, choices and consequences
*leader as steward, not commander
*comfort in extreme uncertainty and chaos
*capacity to hold the tension between the known and unknown, the people within and without the organisation, and the emergent future
*comfort and self-trust in standing on the edge of the emergent future constantly, knowing you have the team and skills to adapt and dance with what arises
*ability to handle multiple perspectives simultaneously
*understands that the process of development takes time. Nature has its own gestation. Patience in holding this process as it unfolds in people and systems
*comfort in creating an open and transparent organisation, where all people have access to everything, and everyone is considered capable of making decisions
*ability to be vulnerable, to not know, and to ask for help
*refusal to buy into pressure, scarcity, imposed values
*able to work within constraints from a place of possibility
*sees constraints as a source for creativity
*requires very few rules, and almost no red tape, as the enterprise remains highly agile, very resilient and adaptable
*embeds just enough structure to enable context, not too much structure to kill creativity
