Uncertainty is a strategic leader’s best friend. How can it be otherwise? If there was enough certainty “everyone would be doing it!”


So what path does the strategic leader follow when the going gets tough? Run a workshop to find the next disrupter for your industry, review your digital strategy, hire younger talent who know how to work with social media or bring in a mindfulness guru? The funny thing is, any one of these ideas and a hundred others may well be the right thing to do. The question is, which one, or which ones?


What a strategic leader does is the hard-smart work. You dig, you develop and you deliver. There is no other way. Yes you can try the next idea that comes through the door or into your inbox, however, you will be way better off if you stop dealing with the mania that is coming at you, think things through, make a decision and see your decision through.


However, better be careful, don’t let what is driving you to make the decision cloud your judgement. At the end of the day it is a judgement, after the hard-smart work, and improving our judgement is what I am passionate about.

www.bryanwhitefield.com.au

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Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.

Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].

He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.

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  • Uncertainty is another word to say liberty. Don't follow without caution advices that expression of persona approach of the adviser with other type of approach.

    Remember that information is always limited and that correct raesonning doesn't protect you from false or distorted data

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