Description
Book SynopsisTransform your organization into an adaptable and flexible innovator
In The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change, accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise. Through interviews with senior leaders from a variety of industries and disciplines, the author shows you the trends and behaviors that allowed successful companies to navigate the changing realities and complexities that have defined recent years, including the COVID-19 crisis, the increasing awareness of racial injustice in society, and the January 6th insurrection.
The New Nimble demonstrates how organizations can internalize and institutionalize lessons from recent paradigm shifts in thinking and learn how to apply those lessons to their everyday operations and to prepare for the next major challenge. You'll discover:
- How crucial it is to clearly
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Part I Understand Your Essence 1
Chapter 1 Know Yourself (and Let Others Know You, Too) 3
Chapter 2 Be Your Better Self 21
Chapter 3 Accept Your Limits 39
Part II Ask the Right Questions 59
Chapter 4 Think Beyond Yourself 61
Chapter 5 Learn What Others Value 77
Chapter 6 Seek “Meaningful Knowledge” 99
Part III Be Bold 123
Chapter 7 Keep It Moving 125
Chapter 8 Get It Done 145
Chapter 9 See the Opportunity 157
Conclusion 171
Acknowledgments 175
About the Author 179
Notes 181
Index 185
