What challenges do disruption and turbulence present? What is the nature of these challenges? Are they fundamentally the same or different? If the challenges are different, how will you know and what does it mean for leadership and teamwork?
Context shapes us
Have you ever wondered how different you would be if you had grown up in a completely different environment? How you might think differently about life? How your values, habits and skills would have evolved as you adapted to a vastly different world?
Imagine for a moment you were born a Bedouin hundreds of years ago in the Arabian Peninsula. Your family and nomadic tribe face life-and-death challenges in the scorching summers and freezing nights, eking out a marginal existence from scarce and hidden food, water and shelter.
Stand still on the ever-shifting sand and your feet sink, so you keep moving. Every step is different as you climb dune after dune and beyond. As a Bedouin your walking style has adapted to this world, finding an optimal pace between going too slowly and sinking and pushing too deep from moving too fast. Your clothing is adapted too. You most likely wear a thawb, an ankle-length gown with wide sleeves like wings that have great functionality for everything from carrying children to signifying tribal status.
To find your way you learn to rely not on footsteps ...
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