Navigate uncertainty with a 'reinvention mindset'

ARE you ready for reinvention? The rapidly evolving working landscape is demanding more from leaders than ever before.

- BY GARY WALDON

Market challenges and opportunities used to come from competitors, economic conditions and the quality of our products and operations. This fast-moving world once required responsiveness, an eye for detail and efficiency. But the age of artificial intelligence (AI) is introducing competitive threat at a faster clip than we've ever faced before.

Changing times

Two decades ago, psychologist Carol Dweck developed the idea of the growth mindset to describe people who believe their abilities can be developed through hard work, learning and perseverance. She also proposed the idea of the fixed mindset for those who think our abilities are already set and can't change. Her concepts influenced management theory for decades. But times have changed. Twenty years ago, we were flipping our phones, sending faxes, and thinking of Google as a new verb.

As a transformational specialist who has worked with thousands of people, I have observed a new type of leader who is better equipped to help their people adapt to the new reality of AI: the leader with a “reinvention mindset”.

Adapting leadership