Complex Adaptive Leadership offers ways to shift the focus of practice
to one that reflects, embraces multiple points of view, and changes in
response to new knowledge and data. From a societal perspective, complex
adaptive leadership provides organizations with the opportunity to
grapple with the most significant and persistent problems of our time
and potentially achieve real change. The paper explores complexity
theory in more detail and its influence on social systems using gender
bias and terrorism as examples. Using the Human Security Framework as a
complex adaptive leadership approach in addressing Wicked Problems, this
paper describes the Human Security dimensions to understand the wicked
problems in which 21st-century organizations grapple with and the type
of organizational leadership needed to confront these challenges.