Navigating Complexity: A Leadership Framework

The challenges facing today’s leadership teams are not merely difficult—they are genuinely complex. Understanding the difference changes everything about how you approach them.

Simple vs. Complex Problems

Simple problems have known solutions. Complex problems require adaptive approaches, experimentation, and learning in real time.

A Framework for Leaders

1. Diagnose accurately — Resist the urge to apply familiar solutions to unfamiliar problems.
2. Create conditions for learning — Small experiments beat big bets when uncertainty is high.
3. Stay close to the work — Leaders who stay connected to reality make better decisions.