Description
Book SynopsisSTILL MOVING Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change sets out an innovative approach for guiding organisations and indeed entire systems through ongoing, disruptive change. It combines Deborah Rowland's own rigorous research into change and its leadership with insights from her extensive field experience helping major global corporations including GlaxoSmithKline, RWE and Shell achieve lasting change with increased productivity, employee engagement and responsible societal impact. It is filled with helpful inspiring stories of leadership and change from the real world and, bravely, the author's own personal journey.
Challenging leaders to cultivate both their inner and outer skills necessary for success, Still Moving weaves together the being' and doing' states of leading change and emphasises the importance of a mindful stance and deep systemic perception within a leader. With the goal of collaborative, sustainable change, the book delves into a variety of
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Moved by Stillness xvii
1 Introduction 1
2 Is Change Changing? 11
3 Still Moving – The Inner and Outer Skills 29
4 It All Starts in Mindfulness 57
5 The Power of the Systemic 79
6 Make Disturbance Your Friend 103
7 Holding the Fire 125
8 The Time for Emergence 149
9 A Tale of Still Moving and Business Transformation 173
10 Still Moving and Your Leadership 199
11 The Sense of an Ending 215
Appendix 1 Detailed Still Moving Research Methodology from Chapter 3 227
Appendix 2 Detailed Leadership Development Programme Description from Chapter 9 229
Notes 233
Bibliography and General Recommended Reading 239
Index 241
