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Friday, November 04, 2011

Positive Leadership: The Role of Chaos in Leader Development


In our view, the best way to develop leaders for the challenges of today is to deliberately introduce chaos into the development process. 

In leader development today, chaos is an imperative. 

Think about that—the idea that you would deliberately introduce chaos into leadership experiences and see how different leaders react to it. 

While we may have enough chaos in our lives, the only way to really test leaders is to see their response when confronted with turmoil.  A wise idea in a tumultuous world?