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Strategic Leadership in a Vuca World

Presenter:

Dr. Jonathan Woodson

Time:

4:41

Summary

U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Jonathan Woodson discusses strategic leadership in a VUCA world—an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

Transcript

A number of years ago, when I was spending time at the US Army War College, where I got a degree in Strategic Studies and strategic leadership, one of the concepts I was interested,introduced to and became fascinated by was the fact that strategic leaders had to operate in what we call the VUCA World.


VUCA is an acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Now you throw those words together, and you say, what, you know, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Volatile represents what we do in the military.

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