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Highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 352 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Decision-Making & Problem Solving
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Book Synopsis
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
From the Back Cover
HOW DYNAMIC LEADERS TURN ADVERSITY TO ADVANTAGE
Turbulence is sweeping workplaces. Conventional leadership 'playbooks' are obsolete. Leaders are bunkered down: reacting, fatigued and overwhelmed. There's room for a new approach.
In Toolkit for Turbulence, experienced change navigators Graham Winter and Martin Bean share proven leadership tools and techniques to help you thrive in turbulence and embrace adversity. Packed with visual models, guided frameworks and hands-on tools, this book shows you how to create your own toolkit for turbulence. With guidance from influential leaders across many different industries, you will learn how to build unique solutions for supporting your team, enterprise and community.
Discover how to:
- Calibrate your mindset. Lead confidently in uncertainty and disruption.
- Adapt to rapid change. Dial up the speed of learning.
- Make cut-through decisions. Excel in high stakes, ambiguous situations.
- Build resilient, connected teams. Cultivate a one-team culture.
- Be the coach your people need. Unlock hidden potential.
Toolkit for Turbulence is the perfect go-to book for executives and leaders -- at all levels -- who need to be skilled and ready for whenever disruption hits.
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.