First be Nimble: A Story About How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World
Author(s): Graham Winter
This book addresses the challenge of how to equip businesses to adapt and thrive in an unpredictable and demanding economy. Told in the form of a fable and illustrated with case studies and powerful tools, the book is designed to engage, inspire, and inform readers from all walks of business life. Helping leaders, teams, and whole organisations to bring their values to the frontline of the battle to be adaptive and productive, First be Nimble shows readers how to align people and teams, collaborate and co-create with others, reduce resistance to change, boost trust, personal resilience, and performance, and prepare for the unique challenges of adaptive change.
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Graham Winter is the best-selling author of Think One Team , founder of consultancy Think One Team International and a three-time Australian Olympic team chief psychologist. Graham is passionate about developing leaders and teams with the resilience and skills to seize opportunities.
about the author ix acknowledgements xi introduction xv part I: the story of 'even chocolate frogs adapt' 1 1 turbulence: the imperative to adapt 3 2 complacency: the danger of success 13 3 change resistance: cracking the code 35 4 disruption: do it to yourself before someone does it to you 51 5 five principles: the game changers 67 6 lessons learned: first be nimbleTM insights 111 7 sustaining: making nimble a way of life 133 part II: the first be nimble system 137 the first be nimble model 139 understanding the five principles 141 implementing the first be nimble(t); system 149 summary 153
General Fields
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- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : 0.22
- : 31 August 2012
- : 204mm X 139mm X 9mm
- : Australia
- : 01 September 2012
- : books
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- : Graham Winter
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 184
