21 Being Comfortable in Chaos
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder”, says Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones.1 What Baelish means is that where there is confusion, where things become uncertain and formal social structures are fluid and unstable, it is easier to shift your position to a more powerful one. Baelish loves disruption and disorder because it provides him, someone with little formal or positional authority, the opportunity to climb the social hierarchy and gain more power. Now, just to be clear, we do not condone the pursuit of power for power’s sake or for selfish gain. However, we do believe that success as a leader requires that you are as adept in the volatile and uncertain world of wicked problems ...
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