Juuriharja blog

Tolerating uncertainty and managing people in a changing operating environment requires managers and executives to pay more attention to people. Skills need to develop. Uncertainty will never go away and it has, in fact, become a part of the new normal.

We now have a better understanding of the resilience (psychological flexibility and the capacity for recovery) of teams and have started to understand the importance of this for the success of an organisation as a whole. People with tenacity and perseverance are in demand. Everyone wants to hire them. More and more of them.

Ethical leadership is the sensitivity to understand what is happening over time and see how the definition of ethicalness is changing and evolving. As the definition can change slowly or quickly, keeping track of its evolution can be challenging. Perhaps this is precisely why, in recent years, there have been reports in the media about miscalculations by senior management. It is hard to notice those everyday situations where the normal way of doing things has changed. The way we used to do things is no longer the accepted way of doing things. Most often these errors are not, by any means, intentional but due to lack of competence or thoughtlessness.