Are You Leading—or Merely Reacting to Instability?

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1:07And I feel like almost everything is up for grabs. A little bit like the 1960s, although very, very, very different. What does good leadership look like when the ground seems to be shifting so dramatically?

1:18Brené Brown:I think what I'm feeling personally is massive instability and unpredictability. I just think even our ability to forecast in short increments of time has been completely disrupted. The metaphor I've been thinking about lately is a visual that I have of both my kids when they played soccer when they were five. And five-year-old soccer is a really fun thing to watch because balls come in really fast and hard at head height. and a kid sticks their foot up in the air and tries to kick it somewhere smart at head height and invariably it goes off the field. But I think that's what a lot of leaders are doing right now.

2:00Brené Brown:Balls are coming in hard and fast, unpredictably high. And instead of jumping up and catching the ball with their chest, dropping the ball to the ground, putting their foot on the ball to maintain possession, looking down the pitch, thinking strategically, anticipating where people are going to be based on training and skill. We're just making really fast, non-strategic decisions that sometimes are because we are in scarcity mode and we're not deploying the skills we have. And more often right now, I think it's we don't have the skills we need.