The Keynote Season Part 1: Chaos? Always! “Events, dear boy, events” was Harold Macmillan’s succinct reply when asked about the greatest challenge for a statesman.  Well, so too with this humble Podcaster who – through force of “events” - has been absent from the podcast platform for exactly one year today.  The absence, however, hasn’t been wasted and, on this the very anniversary of my previous episode, I am rebooting with an omnibus quadruple-decker edition entitled the Keynote Season.  The title comes from the many Keynotes I’ve been invited to deliver during the past 12 months to address the overwhelming client desire to understand the updated principles of “How to Lead in an Age of Chaos and Disruption”. We’re born without all the answers, we die without all the answers, yet we spend most of our lives looking for certainty. The problem lies not with the stars …but with ourselves. We spend this first episode of the Keynote series exploring why we crave certainty so much when the natural state is one of change, ambiguity, and Chaos. Therein lies our collective discomfort.   Insights include: -It’s not You Chaos, it’s Us -It’s our expectations, stupid -It’s OK not to feel OK -Embrace the Discomfort & look for the Opportunity -How Big corporations are capitalizing on the insight Related Episodes Episode 53, 54, 55: Leadership in the New World (Dis)Order (Parts 1-3) Episode 47: Chaos is the New Normal Episode 39 - 42: Leading Teams in Chaos Episode 26: The Leadership Contribution Episode 25:  What is Leadership? (in Chaos) Episode 8: Building Trust Support the show