The Next Normal

No one knows what the new normal will look like. No one how long the crisis will last. But we know one thing in this uncertainty. We can shift our individual and collective leadership for the next new normal, whatever it may be.

By now, we have learned that our playbooks are irrelevant anymore. Our best practices don't work. Our traditional metrics and assumptions have stopped yielding any results.

By now, we've already responded to the crisis. we've crafted a survival plan. We've also planned the return to growth in this way or another.

But that's not enough. The biggest challenges are waiting for us on the other side. For example, the immense impact on consumer and business behaviors. These changes call our full attention in the next normal.

This world will continue to change at a faster pace. It will need new capacities and capabilities most leadership teams don't have.

Our mental frameworks don't work well at such high pace, disruption, volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity.

We need to reinvent our business in the shorter time imaginable. It's only possible if we reinvent ourselves as leaders and as a leadership team.

I'm worried. 175,000 top executives have taken our Leadership Circle Profile in the last decade or so. 80% of these senior executives are ineffective. They are in the Reactive stage of their leadership development. Their average Leadership Effectiveness Index is at 42 percentiles.

Only 15% of the executives are effective. They are in the Creative stage of their leadership development. Their average Leadership Effectiveness Index is at 63 percentiles.

The rest of the leaders 5% are super-effective. They are in the Integral stage. It's the level that fits the most the level of complexity in the next normal. The average Leadership Effectiveness Index of the integral stage is at 90 percentiles.

High complexity calls for Creative and Integral leaders at the helm of businesses. Reactive leaders have lower chances to weather the storm. The Reactive leaders best at first response to the crisis, but not for the new next 'normal'.

Some leadership upgraded their Complexity of Mind. It enabled them to innovate, reform, and excel in the high Complexity of Context. These teams ready more than others to face the next new normal. They will restructure the global economic order and will disrupt their competition.

I'd love to see you playing there too.