Starting in 2010, Ellen Weinreb created a column on GreenBiz called “Talent Show.” The goal of this column is to share industry trends and best practices in the collaboration between sustainability and HR. This article was originally posted on GreenBiz Talent Show.

GB Talent Show: Why we have to learn to embrace volatility and change

Oct 19, 2016 | GreenBiz Talent Show, What We Think

I have written quite regularly about our VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world and how this relates to the sustainability professional. Change is hard. Navigating it is necessary for success.
Leith Sharp, director of Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, teaches that leaders need to embrace that change is nonlinear. In fact, “there is only squiggle” when it comes to transforming organizations.
Read more here in the latest GreenBiz Talent Show post.