I focus in this essay on the ways in which turbulence can be transformed to engagement, and contradiction can be transformed to integration.

This essay concerns ways in which contradiction is transformed to prioritization. We can deploy one of two strategies. The first one is often recommended when addressing the challenge of prioritization. It concerns valuing and sequencing. The second is a bit more novel and of more recent origins. It concerns the management of polarities.

Ways in which complexity is transformed to enablement, ambiguity is transformed into an appreciation of perspective, and turbulence is transformed to learning and contradiction is transformed to prioritization

In this essay and the next three, I introduce an even more diverse set of strategies and tactics which I believe provide a viable alternative to Serenity as a way in which to cope with pressing VUCA-Plus issues.

I broaden consideration of each VUCA-Plus element—considering the polarities associated with each element. I also introduce the opposite of VUCA-Plus.

William Bergquist, Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. [Note: the content of this essay has been included in a recently published book called The Crises of Expertise and Belief. This paperback book can be purchased by clicking on this link.] (Authoritarian Personalities) seem to combine the worst elements of each kind of personality, being power-hungry, unsupportive of equality, manipulative, and amoral, …

We focus on the psychology of how influential people use language to propagate misinformation and lies for their own benefit and how it is possible that so many people actually believe them.

  William Bergquist Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. [Note: the content of this essay has been included in a recently published book called The Crises of Expertise and Belief. This paperback book can be purchased by clicking on this link.] How do we improve not just the quality of expertise being delivered in mid-21st century societies, but also access to …

There are the almost universal challenges associated with the volatility (U), uncertainty (U), complexity (C) and ambiguity (A) in our collective lives, as well as the equally as challenging turbulence and contradiction that we all encounter every day. This is the VUCA-Plus of mid-21st Century life—and it generates multiple challenges.

Many years ago, Don Schon wrote about the "messes" being confronted by contemporary professionals. These messes are multi-dimensional, requiring multi-disciplinary perspectives and multi-strategied approaches to the coaching process itself.