Toolkit for Turbulence - The Mindset Methods That Leaders Need to Turn Adversity to Advantage

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.

List of contents

Introduction xiii
 
Part 1: Pathway 1
 
1. The moment 3
 
2. Advantage leader 15
 
Part 2: Mindset 29
 
3. Linear versus nonlinear 31
 
4. Defeat the defensive mindset 45
 
Part 3: Recalibrate 69
 
5. Paradigm shifts 71
 
6. It starts with you. Anchor on personal values 83
 
7. Let go. Accept the externality of change 95
 
8. Dial up the learning 113
 
9. Prioritise self-care 133
 
Part 4: Team Up 153
 
10. A blueprint for teamwork 155
 
11. Align for total commitment 169
 
12. Collaborate as one 201
 
13. Make team learning a habit 245
 
Part 5: Coach 277
 
14. Be the coach your people need 279
 
Part 6: Scale 307
 
15. Turn adversity to your advantage 309
 
Acknowledgements 329
 
References 331

About the author

GRAHAM WINTER is the best-selling author of Think One Team, founder of consultancy Think One Team and a three-time Australian Olympic team chief psychologist. MARTIN BEAN CBE is the CEO of The Bean Centre, the former Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University and former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Bean, Graham Winter, Graham Bean Winter
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781394208654
• ISBN: 978-1-394-20865-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Führung, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Management f. Führungskräfte, Management / Leadership