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Almost three decades ago, social scientists at the U.S. Army War College coined the acronym “VUCA” in an attempt to characterize the environment in which their students would need to operate in the future. VUCA—standing for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—has since become a bit of a generalized term used across both geopolitical and business contexts to describe turbulence. And in the past decade or so, authors from both industry and academia have produced an increasing number of articles, books, blog posts, and YouTube videos discussing VUCA and its implications for leaders and organizations.

Alongside these discussions of VUCA are various ideas about how executives should guide their organizations in dealing with turbulence and attempts to characterize how employees of all levels can best deal with increasingly frequent change or uncertainty. A prevailing idea that has emerged is that agility—at the person, team, and organizational levels—is necessary for effective management of VUCA. At the level of the individual person, agility involves what Elaine Pulakos and her colleagues introduced some 20 years ago as “adaptive performance,” which includes competencies such as handling emergencies or crises, learning new tools or technologies, coping effectively with stress, among others. For teams and groups, agility often involves a combination of rapidly making sense of new situations along with the norms that support robust interaction and dissent to elevate decision-making quality. For organizations, agility involves ongoing sensing and monitoring of the environment and of the organization’s stakeholders to detect and respond rapidly to weak signals of threats or opportunities.

Yet despite the modest proliferation of ideas on these topics, executives and other leaders have few evidence-based resources to draw from with regard to using agility to deal with the VUCA they face. If it is true that many organizations are operating in

American politician and lawyer (born 1976)

Rohit Khanna (KAHN-ə; born September 13, 1976) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic Representative Mike Honda in the general election on November 8, 2016, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under PresidentBarack Obama from August 8, 2009, to August 2011. Khanna endorsed Bernie Sanders for president of the United States in 2016. In 2020, Khanna co-chaired the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.

Khanna was born in Philadelphia to Indian immigrant parents. A self described “progressive capitalist,” Khanna has called for a "new economic patriotism" as a governing philosophy. He states that he only accepts campaign donations from individuals and is one of only six members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and ten members of Congress, who state that they do not take campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) or corporations.

Early life and education

Rohit Khanna was born on September 13, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a PunjabiHindu family. His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Punjab, India, in the 1970s. His father is a chemical engineer who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the University of Michigan while his mother is a former schoolteacher.

Khanna's maternal grandfather Amarnath Vidyalankar was from Bhera City, Shahpur District, Punjab Province, British India (now Bhera, Sargodha District, West Punjab, Pakistan). He was part of the Indian independence movement, working w