Silver Bullets: What drives the need for certainty?...  - Webinar 1 with Simon Cavicchia
Channel: Steve Hearsum
Date: 2020-07-20

What drives the need for Silver Bullets, and why are leaders and organisations so prone to looking for them?... 

This is a recording of the first of two webinars (the same event run twice) on the question of what drives the need for certainty in organisations, and by extensions leaders.....

We are faced with many complex challenges today e.g.:

- How to respond to the impact of COVID-19
- Addressing social and racial inequality
- New technology
- Climate change
- Attract and retaining talent etc.

In response to these, we see leaders often searching for a Silver Bullet, a guaranteed solution, a certain fix to these and other problems.

However, like the mythical Silver Bullet, guaranteed solutions are hard to find. That doesn’t stop those at the top of organisations – and often lower down – looking for them.   What is less clear is what drives that need.

Is it fear, if so, of what? Anxiety? Privilege? Hubris? Narcissism?... 

Steve Hearsum and Simon Cavicchia were the hosts.