Enhance your Leading Skills with 9 Actions Mastery of Blue Leadership

Dr Michael Heng
5 min readApr 21, 2020

Blue Leaders are action-oriented. The Way of Blue Leadership provides the action frame of a complete, patterned response to the management of business excellence as well as the socio-psychological stress, dissonance and disequilibrium engendered in this era of uncertainty and permanent turbulent change.

The imperative of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) challenges organisational performance to embrace the emergent social realities of uncertainty and permanent turbulence. This involves the successful management of change by projecting visionary Blue Leadership to instil confidence and a sense of direction out of the chaos created to bring about a new social order and equilibrium within the organisation. The Blue Leadership mandate is to direct the thrust of change efforts to create and evolve a corporate culture with the discipline of continuous learning and innovation, and where permanent change has become a way of life.

Blue Leaders use Mindfulness to overlay the Terrain of Opportunity to provide a “sense” of the turbulent change in real time. Mindfulness is the Capacility [capacity+capability] to capture holistically the authentic pattern(s) of changing social realities. Mindfulness self-mastery in Blue Leaders imbues in them the consciousness of action through sense-making…

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Dr Michael Heng

Top 50 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on CSR, Explorer, Enabler. Top Writer in Poetry. Drives ventures and enterprises. ILLUMINATION Editor and Writer.