Concluding Comments

There are many applications that can be extracted from the various models I have offered in this essay.  Hopefully, I have identified a few that are relevant to the reader of this essay. Leadership, innovation and organizational change are not easy to implement and guide in the complex, unpredictable and turbulent environment in which contemporary organizations operate.  We must look to many sources of wisdom and insight when helping our leader clients formulate strategies that are responsive to the challenges of tippy vulnerability. I believe that some of the sources of wisdom are to be found in the full appreciation of evolutionary processes, rugged and dancing landscapes, and warped planes that seem to dominate the world of 21st Century organizations and challenge the courage and creativity of 21st Century leaders and their coaches.

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Photo Credit: Charles Smith

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Following are links to the other articles in this issue of Transformation:

Gary Clarke: The Invulnerability of Being Vulnerable

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/concepts/interpersonal-relationships-foundations/the-invulnerability-of-being-vulnerable/

Marilyn Smith: Add Vulnerability to a Results-Oriented Enterprise and Produce Extraordinary Outcomes

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/concepts/interpersonal-relationships-foundations/add-vulnerability-to-a-results-oriented-enterprise-and-produce-extraordinary-outcomes/

Meaghan Smith: Vulnerability

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/concepts/interpersonal-relationships-foundations/vulnerability/

David Norris and Charles Smith: Work and Love

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/concepts/employee-engagement/work-and-love/

Frank White: The Overview Effect and the Camelot Effect

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/leader-2/the-overview-effect-and-the-camelot-effect/

Barry Oshry: Take a Look at Yourself: The Self in System Sensitizer

https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/tools/instrumentssurveysquestionnaires/take-a-look-at-yourself-the-self-in-system-sensitizer/