This is a YouTube video titled "How to be a good leader in uncertainty" containing a monologue by Dave Gerhardt recorded in June 2024. In this content, Dave Gerhardt discusses leadership strategies during times of business uncertainty, emphasizing absorbing noise for the team, maintaining focus, managing expectations, and taking action to navigate ambiguity.
How do you be a good leader when the business might be in a state of uncertainty? I think there's two ways you can do it. One is to realize that you are to some degree supposed to be absorbing the noise for your team and providing the signal, management, rethinking things and going through all these iterations. There was still at some point in time a decision made as an organization consciously decide to change paths. Like, you need to keep your team focused and like executing. And I think you're also hinting at your boss is not always going to be able to say, here are the five steps I need you to execute and all will be right with the world. What I ask people to do is just like express that in the expectation. You can express that through ranges, almost letting everybody know that there's questions to be answered. And the expectation is to do the work, to answer the questions becomes your way through it. Back to your obstacle is the way. The only way I know to get through ambiguity is to start taking action to generate data, then learn and continue to adjust.