Last modified: 2014-10-24
Abstract
The Institute for the Future (2011) analyzed several key drivers of change and disruptive shifts that will impact the landscape of work and identified work skills that will be critical for the next ten years. The top skill identified was sensemaking. According to Deborah Ancona (2011), Director of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management, sensemaking – the ability to make sense of what’s going on in an unpredictable, uncertain, rapidly changing and complex environment – the ability of framing and acting in the unknown – the ability of discovering the new terrain as you are inventing it - is a particularly important predictor of leadership success. This paper explores and discusses what sensemaking is and how sensemaking may be built and integrated into curricula and taught as a core business and leadership capability.