Light a torch to lead!
In the midst of 2020, I wrote to applicants that “2020 was a time when we had to acknowledge how drastically our world can change. Unfortunately, we have to admit that we were still too naïve to anticipate such speed and magnitude of upheavals in our economic system and daily life. Nothing is stable and predictable, indeed.”
Unfortunately again, what we’ve seen since then further reinforces what I wrote before. Not only the economic system and its underlying technologies, but also our society as a whole has undergone a drastic transformation.
What do you, as a future leader, need to learn in this era of drastic transformation? Quite naturally, your members follow you because you clearly show them the right direction. In a darkness of uncertainty, they expect you to illuminate a path toward survival and prosperity.
What enables you to be an effective leader, therefore, is creative intelligence as a torch. “Disciplined imagination,” a term coined by a leading authority of managerial thinking, shows that our act of novelty creation can be productive only when it is accompanied by a certain degree of cognitive discipline.
One example of such disciplines for managers may include broad perspectives to discern structural mechanisms underlying seemingly chaotic phenomena.
Fortunately, we have the wisdom to survive in this turmoil. Aren’t you interested in learning how you should discipline your imagination?