The British banker and politician Nathan Rothschild viewed chaos as a source of opportunity, noting, rather cynically, that great fortunes are made when cannonballs fall in the harbor, not when violins play in the ballroom. Rothschild understood that complexity and unpredictability can be favorable, but only if companies have the right leadership to capitalize on it.
As the number of challenges companies face multiply in today’s turbulent environment, the performance of a company’s leaders will continue to erode unless HR takes a different approach.
