It is at this point that Essentials and Essence join hands. What are the Essential steps to be taken in establishing the Essence of Trust?

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

A reflection on the nature of Essence and ways in which Volatility is transformed to recognition of patterns, uncertainty is transformed to maintenance of patterns, complexity is transformed to emergent self-organization, and ambiguity is transformed to Illumination.

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.

Like the glorious foliage of the Fall season, these Autumnal women and men are more than living out the middle and late stages of life. They are bursting with colorful and generative perspectives and deeply caring actions.

There is a big market for cheating in our mid-21st Century world. Frankly, we have all done some cheating in our life. These are what we identify as Soft Cheats—accompanied by Soft Lies. There are of course the Hard Cheats and the Hard Lies. How do we handle soft and hard cheats as coaches?

  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 …

Experts are in trouble. And our whole society is in trouble. We don’t know what to believe and our experts often seem to have only a tenuous grasp on reality. These concerns are societal products of late 20th and early 21st Century thought. I would also note that there is a much earlier source: Plato's allegory of the cave.

The division of our culture is making us more obtuse than we need be: we can repair communications to some extent: but . . . .we are not going to turn out men and women who understand as much of their world as Piero della Francesca did of his, or Pascal, or Goethe. With good fortune, however, we can educate …