Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations

The general problemProblem(s) that prompted this study is that to configure to requisite orderOrderrequisite in an increasingly complex world, organizations must deploy greater collective intelligenceCollective intelligence. The specific problemProblem(s) that prompted this study is that the discourses of metagovernanceMetagovernance, complexity leadershipLeadershipcomplexity, and sense-makingSense-making reflect different conceptual interests and do not connect; without a common, actionable narrativeNarrative, these three lenses cannot advise how organizations of the future should be led. The research questionResearchquestion was: What leadership management frameworkLeadership management framework for sense-makingSense-making and decision-makingDecision-making can help organizations meet challengesChallenge and reap opportunities in simpleContextsimple, complicatedContextcomplicated, complexContextcomplex, and chaotic contextsContextchaotic? To help other scholars and practitioners operating in the same field, this chapter anchors the study in the literature reviewed in Chap. 2 and extends the discussion of the findings in Chap. 4 from what they were to what they mean and how important that is. In order, this chapter interprets the findings of this study, makes recommendations for future studies, remarks on the significance of the findings, and draws conclusions on responses to the research question.