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Meeting the Cognitive Demands of Leading in Times of Uncertainty

Meeting the Cognitive Demands of Leading in Times of Uncertainty
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Author(s): Al Lauzon (University of Guelph, Canada)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 10
Source title: Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch031

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Abstract

This chapter proposes to ask the question “What are the cognitive demands of contemporary leadership?” The chapter begins by exploring the changes we have experienced and continue to experience, and their implications for leadership. These changes will be explored in the context of wicked problems and followed by a section of the implications of wicked problems for leadership. The argument will then be made that in examining the various challenges and opportunities we are being presented with a demand for a structure of consciousness beyond that of modernity's rational-logic. This will be followed by the articulation of an evolutionary framework and its dynamics that focuses on the evolution of consciousness. A specific focus will be on the emergence of a new structure of consciousness—vision-logic— as the necessary structure of consciousness for leaders contending with wicked problems and uncertain times. I will close by looking at the implications for leaders.

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