Is it Complicated or is it Complex?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark speaks with Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger. Dr. Garvey helps CEOs unleash their teams' and organizations' complexity genius.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is the co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, where they blend deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders' lives better. She coaches CEOs and their executive teams and designs and teaches high-end leadership programs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has written three highly acclaimed books on leadership and complexity. Jennifer's newly released book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unleash Your Complexity Genius</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: growing your inner capacity to lead.<br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>Dr. Garvey lives in the French countryside, where she bought a house with 11 friends. Putting her expertise and insights into complexity and leadership, they live in a community while focusing on what works and developing more of that while letting go of what doesn’t. Jennifer is a coach for CEOs and various high-functioning teams, helping them unleash the power of the collective and how they can all thrive as individuals while working toward common goals. One of the fundamental questions Dr. Berger asks is how do we recognize the complexity and then work with it and harness it in some ways to create the lives we want to lead. </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Looking at Patterns to Inform Actions:</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">When we acknowledge that complexity exists within our relationships and the external world, we can lead with that awareness. One of the ways to enact positive change is to notice the patterns are working and focus on how to do more of that, as well as noticing any patterns that don’t work and leading our way through complexity together. </span></p> <p