
Navigate the Swirl
7 Crucial Conversations for Business Transformation
Richard Hawkes(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2022
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-119-86879-8 (ISBN)
Description
An actionable blueprint for transformational business journeys
Leading transformation in teams, businesses, and organizations is complex, and leaders are expected to know how to do it. This book provides the clear thinking required to navigate this challenge.
In Navigate the Swirl: 7 Crucial 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. In this book you will 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 Crucial Conversations for Business Transformation belongs on the desks and in the hands of every purpose driven leader.
Leading transformation in teams, businesses, and organizations is complex, and leaders are expected to know how to do it. This book provides the clear thinking required to navigate this challenge.
In Navigate the Swirl: 7 Crucial 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. In this book you will 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 Crucial Conversations for Business Transformation belongs on the desks and in the hands of every purpose driven leader.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-86879-8 (9781119868798)
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Content
Foreword by Penny Pennington, CEO, Edward Jones
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader: How to Use this Book
Introduction: The Swirl
Part I: Framing the Conversation
Chapter 1: Understanding Organizations: Social Systems, Not Machines
Chapter 2: Understanding Businesses: The Business Triangle
Chapter 3: Understanding Growth: Dynamics of Organizational Development
Part II: The Evolution of an Enterprise
Chapter 4: Introducing the Evolutionary Stages Model
Chapter 5: A Business Is Born: Stage I, Independent Contributors
Chapter 6: A Leader Steps Up: Stage II, Directive Leadership
Chapter 7: A 5:30 Wake-Up Call: Stage II to III Transition
Chapter 8: A Complete System of Roles: Stage III, Distributed Leadership
Chapter 9: Leveraging Creative Tension: Stage III, Distributed Leadership continued
Chapter 10: High Performing Teams: Stage III, Distributed Leadership cont.
Chapter 11: A Flat, Agile Organization: Stage IV, Leaders Leading Leaders
Part III: The Seven Crucial Conversations
Chapter 12: Organizations Evolve at the Speed of Conversation
Chapter 13: Conversation 1-Activating Purpose
Chapter 14: Conversation 2-Driving Focus
Chapter 15: Conversation 3-Shifting Mindset
Chapter 16: Conversation 4-Specifying Roles and Capabilities
Chapter 17: Conversation 5-Streamlining Interdependencies
Chapter 18: Conversation 6-Aligning Strategies
Chapter 19: Conversation 7-Implementing Initiatives
Chapter 20: An Invitation to Transformation
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader: How to Use this Book
Introduction: The Swirl
Part I: Framing the Conversation
Chapter 1: Understanding Organizations: Social Systems, Not Machines
Chapter 2: Understanding Businesses: The Business Triangle
Chapter 3: Understanding Growth: Dynamics of Organizational Development
Part II: The Evolution of an Enterprise
Chapter 4: Introducing the Evolutionary Stages Model
Chapter 5: A Business Is Born: Stage I, Independent Contributors
Chapter 6: A Leader Steps Up: Stage II, Directive Leadership
Chapter 7: A 5:30 Wake-Up Call: Stage II to III Transition
Chapter 8: A Complete System of Roles: Stage III, Distributed Leadership
Chapter 9: Leveraging Creative Tension: Stage III, Distributed Leadership continued
Chapter 10: High Performing Teams: Stage III, Distributed Leadership cont.
Chapter 11: A Flat, Agile Organization: Stage IV, Leaders Leading Leaders
Part III: The Seven Crucial Conversations
Chapter 12: Organizations Evolve at the Speed of Conversation
Chapter 13: Conversation 1-Activating Purpose
Chapter 14: Conversation 2-Driving Focus
Chapter 15: Conversation 3-Shifting Mindset
Chapter 16: Conversation 4-Specifying Roles and Capabilities
Chapter 17: Conversation 5-Streamlining Interdependencies
Chapter 18: Conversation 6-Aligning Strategies
Chapter 19: Conversation 7-Implementing Initiatives
Chapter 20: An Invitation to Transformation
Glossary
Index