Toolkit for Turbulence [electronic resource] : The Mindset and Methods That Leaders Need to Turn Adversity to Advantage
- Author
- Winter, Graham
- Published
- Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2023.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (355 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Bean, Martin, 1964-
Access Online
- Contents
- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Six parts -- Building your own toolkit -- Part 1 Pathway: ... from disruption to advantage -- Chapter 1 The moment -- Martin Bean: leaning into disruption -- Never to go back -- No plan survives first contact with the enemy -- Positive disruption -- Graham Winter: finding the right moment -- Martin's playbook -- The gathering storm -- Advantage leaders -- Insights -- Turning adversity to advantage -- Chapter 2 Advantage leader -- The accelerant -- In-the-field experience -- The toolkit -- Mental models, Graham Winter: reimagine and reset -- The three principles -- Principle 1. Calibrate your mindset -- Principle 2. Engage your team to build, test and learn a new toolkit -- Principle 3. Be the coach your people need -- Encouragement -- Part 2 Mindset: ... from defensive to adaptive -- Chapter 3 Linear versus nonlinear -- Context shapes us -- Know your challenges -- Capability 1. Notice the differences -- Be alert to the nature of challenges -- Capability 2. Adapt your approach -- Capability 3. Apply different tools -- The most common leadership failure -- Beware the dragons, Alert your team to the nonlinear -- Recap -- Chapter 4 Defeat the defensive mindset -- Superpower -- Defensive or adaptive? -- Why adaptive mindset matters so much -- Train your adaptive mindset -- See -- The threat response -- What is happening? -- How do you know? -- Squirm -- Welcome to the squirm -- Threat and reward -- Embrace the squirm -- Seek -- Go towards the fire -- Decompartmentalise after -- Recap -- Mindset can change at scale -- Why change doesn't have to be slow -- Make the implicit explicit -- Part 3 Recalibrate: ... your leadership paradigms -- Chapter 5 Paradigm shifts, Paradigms and mindsets -- Element A. Ride the storm -- 1. Understand your new context -- 2. Reimagine your strategy -- 3. Switch on your team -- 4. 10x communication -- 5. Loop and learn -- Element B. Create the storm -- 1. Scan for opportunities -- 2. Challenge and change assumptions -- 3. Get your team on board -- 4. Coach for innovation -- 5. Nail the landing -- Element C. Recalibrate your mindset -- Chapter 6 It starts with you. Anchor on personal values -- Reimagine -- Graham Winter: black swan decisions -- Real values aren't on the wall -- 1. Authenticity -- 2. Awareness -- 3. Adaptability, and Graham Winter: on meeting Martin for the first time -- Martin Bean: courage is my starting point -- The values anchor -- Values in action -- Chapter 7 Let go. Accept the externalityof change -- The psychology of certainty and control -- Go with the instability -- Core principles -- Principle 1. Embrace the highway of uncertainty -- Crossing the highway of uncertainty -- Remember the adaptive squirm -- Principle 2. Deal with loss -- Letting go means loss -- The pathway and loss -- Control is overrated. Cross the highway -- Chapter 8 Dial up the learning -- Loops and insights -- The pace is on
- Summary
- Don't just survive adversity: turn it to your advantage To succeed as a high-performing leader today, you need to know how to navigate extreme change and uncertainty. Toolkit for Turbulence unpacks the mindset and methods used by top leaders and teams to assess, adapt, and respond to unforeseen challenges and ambiguity. With this book, you'll learn how to seize the unexpected as an opportunity to develop your leadership capabilities and build a more adaptive team. From visual models to guided frameworks, Toolkit for Turbulence shares easy-to-implement core tools that you can use to construct your own leadership solutions -- solutions that suit the unique needs of your team, your enterprise, and your community. Authors Graham Winter and Martin Bean CBE share timely advice and practical strategies, together with compelling, real-world stories from prominent executive leaders across a variety of industries. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll discover how top leaders succeed even in times of crisis. Backed by performance psychology, the tools in this book will show you how to build the flexibility and resilience your team needs to thrive in a volatile, unpredictable world. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll learn how to: Be an advantage leader: a leader who welcomes disruption, grasps opportunities to adapt, and builds teams and cultures capable of turning adversity into advantage Use learning loops and training canvases to guide your team in responding effectively and continuously to challenges Recognise and embrace nonlinear challenges, which require leaders and teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working Be responsive and proactive (rather than reactive and defensive) and recalibrate when things don't go as expected Develop a resilient, adaptive leadership mindset, training your mind and transforming the way you think and behave With Toolkit for Turbulence, executives and leaders at all levels can build their strategies for weathering today's only certainty: uncertainty. Its crucial insights into how to pivot dynamically and successfully will prepare you to navigate the unexpected with your organisation and your team -- every day, in real life and real time.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781394208593
1394208596
9781394208630 (electronic bk.)
1394208634 (electronic bk.)
1394208650
9781394208654 - Note
- Description based upon print version of record.
Apply the discipline of loops
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