Most organisations were designed for more innocent times
The world has become faster, more connected and increasingly unpredictable. Yet many organisations still rely on structures, assumptions and management practices designed for a more stable era.
Ade McCormack helps leaders understand the challenges this creates and how organisations can build organisations that remain viable, vital and valuable in an increasingly unknowable world.
Executive challenges
The challenges facing today's leaders
Disruption is increasing. Decisions must be made faster. AI is reshaping work. Expectations continue to rise while certainty continues to fall.
The question is no longer how to optimise for a predictable future. It is how to ensure the organisation remains viable, vital and valuable in an increasingly unknowable world.
Explore the challenges.
Outcomes
Staying in the game
In an increasingly unknowable world, organisations need more than efficiency and scale. They must be capable of adapting to changing conditions while continuing to create value for customers, employees and stakeholders.
The organisations most likely to stay in the game are those that remain:
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Viable: able to survive and prosper amid disruption
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Vital: energised, innovative and capable of renewal
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Valuable: creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.
This requires a different approach. An approach that is less process-factory and more living system.
About Ade McCormack
For more than four decades, Ade McCormack's work has focused on a single question:
What enables organisations to remain viable, vital and valuable in an increasingly unknowable world?
In short:
Astrophysics | FT | MIT Sloan | University of Cambridge | 40 countries | 4 decades
Running | Parkour | Martial arts | Self defence | Dancing | Living systems
Keynoting
In an increasingly unknowable world, organisations need new ways of thinking about leadership, adaptiveness, organisation intelligence and disruption.
Ade McCormack delivers thought-provoking keynotes that challenge assumptions, connect emerging realities to organisational action and leave audiences better prepared for what comes next.
Themes include: Disruption, society, intelligent organisations, cognition (AI and human), leadership, organisational adaptiveness, the future and innovation.
Advisory
In an increasingly disruptive world, many organisations find themselves operating with models, assumptions and leadership approaches designed for more innocent times.
Ade McCormack works with leaders to increase their organisation's chances of thriving in an increasingly unknowable world by capitalising on their people and their technology.