Online Event LG Darmstadt - Elegance Or VUCA? A Pointy Point-of-View with Robert Snyder

This acronym VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. We hear this term more because it describes many of our work environments. And many of us are surrendering to VUCA.

This session encourages the opposite, i.e., that you can combat and can solve VUCA. Solving VUCA requires that you discontinue certain legacy mindsets and practices that you might hold sacred. Solving VUCA requires that you adopt mindsets and practices inspired outside the conventional spaces of I.T. These inspirations convert cultures of low discipline and empathy into cultures of high discipline and empathy – in a word, Elegance.

This session explains the culture traits for Elegance and for VUCA. The language, tools, habits, and the call-to-action are not squishy. This session shares a pointy point-of-view so that you can be at peace whether you surrender to VUCA, whether you pursue Elegance, and everything in between.

Agenda

•         Things that can no longer be sacred
•          New conventions that shape a culture of discipline, empathy, and elegance
•         Path to transition from VUCA to Elegance

Learning Objectives / Takeaways 

•      Manage with Five Verbs instead of Four Adjectives and a Million Verbs
•      Language and tools for your preferred metaphors, mechanics, and money
•         Confidence that you can pursue Elegance instead of surrendering to VUCA
  
  

  Bio

  Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. His thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He has performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles. Robert earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA in Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

  Robert is publishing a series of books on innovation methodology.

  “Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace” (available now)

  “Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy” (available now)

  “Elegant Leadership: Distinguishing the Good, the Bad, and the False” (targeting 2025)