Leading Together: Complex Challenges Require a new Approach

and sometimes conflicting values.

Often, new language emerges.

Navigation. Because a complex

challenge is not a familiar problem

to be solved but a reality to be faced

through change and development,

the process is one of learning from

shared experiments, small wins,

innovations, and emergent strategies.

No one can set a goal whose

achievement will resolve the com-

plex challenge. It is a journey whose

destination is unpredictable and

unknown. A key to success is the

ability to be keenly sensitive to the

forces of change as they happen, like

mariners who sail a ship by making

minute, mutual adjustments to one

another and to the elements of wind

and current.

These ...