"""The 7 Conversations is a unique model for organizations to grow and innovate in a team-based way with a powerful transformation accelerator."" —Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones
An actionable blueprint for transformational business journeys from Growth River founder Richard Hawkes
Leading transformation in teams, businesses, and organizations is complex, and leaders are expected to know how to do it. Navigating the Swirl provides the clear thinking required to navigate this challenge.
In Navigate the Swirl: 7 Conversations for Business Transformation renowned growth and strategy leader Richard Hawkes delivers a simple and powerful framework that any team can apply to overcome the most common leadership challenges to growing and scaling companies, known as “The Swirl.” In this straightforward book, he draws on decades of experience guiding teams to implement strategic change at companies like Edward Jones, GENEWIZ, Hitachi, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, and Chicos.
You'll learn:
To understand and lead disruptive change in a complex social system – your company Ways to visualize and diagnose the essential working parts of a company How to apply an integrated toolset for teams to lead organizational change and business transformation How to create transformational journey maps that leaders, teams, businesses, and companies must apply to unleash growth potential and agility How networks of teams should work together to develop each other’s leadership and to manage and accelerate change
Written as a practical guide for business and team leaders, Navigate the Swirl: 7 Conversations for Business Transformation belongs on the desks and in the hands of every purpose driven leader."
By:
Richard S. Hawkes
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781119868798
ISBN 10: 1119868793
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 March 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword ix Acknowledgments xix A Note To The Reader: How to Use This Book xxi Introduction: The Swirl xxiii Part 1 Framing the Conversation 1 1 Understanding Organizations: Social Systems, Not Machines 3 2 Understanding Businesses: The Business Triangle 19 3 Understanding Growth: Dynamics of Organizational Development 31 Part 2 The Evolution of an Enterprise 47 4 The Four Stages of Enterprise Evolution 49 5 A Business Is Born: Stage 1, Independent Contributors 57 6 A Leader Steps Up: Stage 2, Directive Leadership 65 7 A 5:30 Wake-Up Call: The Transition to Stage 3, Distributed Leadership 71 8 A Complete System of Roles: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership 81 9 Leveraging Creative Tension: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership, continued 101 10 High-Performing Teams: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership, continued 115 11 Toward a Flat, Agile Organization: Stage 4: Leaders Leading Leaders 127 Part 3 The Seven Conversations 133 12 Organizations Evolve at the Speed of Conversation 135 13 Conversation 1: Activating Purpose 145 14 Conversation 2: Driving Focus 153 15 Conversation 3: Shifting Mindset 159 16 Conversation 4: Specifying Capabilities and Roles 165 17 Conversation 5: Streamlining Interdependencies 171 18 Conversation 6: Aligning Strategies 175 19 Conversation 7: Implementing Initiatives 185 20 An Invitation to Transformation 187 Glossary 191 Index 239
Richard S. Hawkes is the Founder of Growth River, an international consultancy that guides leaders and teams to create higher performance in businesses and organizations. Its practical mission is to make high-performing ways of working easier. He works with companies to identify and resolve constraints to success, including Edward Jones, GENEWIZ, Hitachi, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mars. He sees purpose-driven, customer-focused, team-based, multi-stakeholder businesses as our best bet for solving the big problems.
Reviews for Navigate the Swirl: 7 Conversations for Business Transformation
“…an absorbing business book that brilliantly addresses how to cope with the turbulence of change, culminating in “seven critical conversations” that lead to organizational transformation.” Kirkus Reviews
