Discover why not taking a risk is the biggest risk of all
In The Upside of Disruption: The Path To Leading and Thriving in the Unknown, renowned disruption thinker and best-selling author Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges. In the book, you'll find the future-ready insights and tools you need to lead for today and prepare your organization for tomorrow.
The author explains why so many of us continually overestimate the risks of bold decisions while underestimating the downsides of standing still for too long in an increasingly complex and volatile world. You'll learn about the upside of disruption and how to turn it into a tailwind for laser-like focus and strategic courage. You'll also find:
Discussions of why good leaders learn but great leaders unlearn The key to unlocking cultures of courage over conformity Actionable strategies to sharpen the future readiness muscle and find the upside in disruption
A singularly engaging new take on leading the future that uniquely favors the bold, The Upside of Disruption will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, and founders looking for a new and resilient path forward.
By:
Terence Mauri
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 160mm,
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781394192601
ISBN 10: 1394192606
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 A Wake- up Call from the Future 1 Leadership on the Ballot 5 Future- ready Mindsets 7 Questions Are the Answer 14 Don’t Mention the ‘D’ Word 16 Disruption Is the Norm; the Upside Is a Choice 17 The Upside Is the Answer 18 The Nutritional Value of Leadership 21 Chapter 2 Data: Lead with AI 31 Leadership Disrupted 35 Making the Impossible Possible 36 Amazonification Principles 38 The Most Significant Risk Is Not AI 39 Underhyped Versus Overhyped 40 A Brief History of AI 42 The AI-Intelligence Illusion 47 Attention Is the New Oil 50 Matching AI with Leadership and Humanity 54 The Anything Workforce 55 Be a Future-maker 60 Takeaways 61 Chapter 3 Agility: Great Leaders Unlearn 65 Learning for Today While Unlearning for Tomorrow 68 Mind the Agility Gap 71 Slow, Siloed, and Complicated 74 Measure My Bureaucratic BS (Score Yourself on a Scale of 1–5) 5 = “Strongly Agree” 75 Failure to Reimagine Failure 79 A Brief History of Failure 81 From Action, I Learn (FAIL) 84 A Story of Unlearning a Toxic Culture 87 Unlearning Is the Answer 92 Unlearning Equals Agility and Humility 95 Takeaways 96 Chapter 4 Risk: The Courage Advantage 101 The Courage Dividend 108 Courage Calling 108 Willful Contrarianism 115 The Mindset Advantage 120 The Beyonders 122 Wanted – Leaders of Courage 127 Takeaways 127 Chapter 5 Evolution: In Trust, We Grow 133 Truth Decay in Organizations 136 Trust on the Ballot 136 Trust in Humans 137 Trust Decay 139 The Trust Mindset 142 Believing 146 Belonging 146 Braving 147 Becoming 148 Who We Are Is What We Do 148 The Future of Trust 157 Trust Is The Ultimate Human Currency 164 Takeaways 165 Chapter 6 Beyond Is Where We Begin 169 First, When Disruption Is the Norm, Rethinking Is the Answer 171 Second, Technology Changes Fast. Humans Don’t 173 Third, In the Human-Technology Nexus, Courage Skills Are the New Leadership 175 Beware of the Rubber Band Effect 177 The Dogs That Don’t Bark 179 Frontier Leadership 180 Chapter 7 The Dare Leadership Test 187 Data 189 Agility 190 Risk 190 Evolution 190 Notes 191 Acknowledgments 209 About the Author 211 Index 213
TERENCE MAURI is the founder of the management think tank Hack Future Lab and a world-leading expert on leadership, AI, and disruption. He has been described as an ‘influential and outspoken thinker on the future of leadership’ by Thinkers50, the global ranking authority of top management thinkers. He is an adjunct professor at IE Business School and a mentor at MIT.
