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What VUCA Really Means for You

It’s become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and

ambiguity, and a catchall for “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” It’s also misleading: VUCA conflates four

distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses. That makes it difficult to know how to approach a challenging situation and easy to use VUCA as a crutch, a way to throw off the hard work of strategy and planning—after

all, you can’t prepare for a VUCA world, right?

Actually, you can. Here is a guide to identifying, getting ready for, and responding to events in

each of the four VUCA categories.

A version of this article appeared in the January– February 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review.

https://hbr.org/2014/01/what-vuca-really- means-for-you