Character Insights for a Regenerative Future : 5 Leadership Superpowers to Drive Growth, Innovation and the Future of Work.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Randburg :
Knowledge Resources,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- ENDORSEMENTS
- Copyright Page
- Full Title Page
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- PREFACE
- PART 1: THE GROUNDWORK
- Reality bites
- Poking the giant
- So why even bother?
- Why not?
- Working on the ecosystem, not just in it
- What is the ecosystem?
- Implementation: The ecosystem's health status indicator
- Working on the right problem: innovate the system
- Character might crack the culture code
- Character: A hypothesis
- Character is not personality
- Character trumps talent, skills and expertise
- The culture DNA of your business is set first by the character traits of the founders and then the management team
- Bad character is a rot that spreads
- Good character creates high-trust relationships
- Forging high-trust relationships depends on good character
- Looking forward to the 21st century
- The case for character
- Being a leader of high character affects your bottom line
- Down the rabbit hole with the dirty hands
- PART 2: CHARACTER: UNPACKING THE DNA OF ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATION
- 1. Intellectual humility
- Innovation doesn't need your ego involved
- The ability to collaborate
- Harnessing the power of the collective
- It's how you get buy-in
- It's how you get alignment
- And then the real work begins…
- The ability to change
- Grendel's Mom - leadership and the status quo
- Taking off the armour
- The ability to learn
- It's all spaghetti
- 2. Grit
- How purpose and perseverance affect your innovation game
- Purpose: The intrinsic motivation that drives innovation
- 'It's what gets me out of bed in the morning.'
- Collective purpose in the corporate innovation space
- Into the future
- Perseverance: The time and patience for taking the long view
- Leadership and perseverance
- The Long-Term Stock Exchange.
- Levels of work and the long-term leadership game
- Chicken or Pig
- 3. Other-centredness
- How not being a jerk benefits innovation
- Other-centredness is a long-term strategy
- Trust me, this is totally going to hurt a bit
- Building trust - one step at a time
- It's not as easy as it looks
- The servant leader
- Between the old guard and the new
- Who are we serving?
- But what does it matter?
- It takes a whole lot of courage
- Good relationships
- Social intelligence for innovation
- Diversity can be a beautiful foundation for great relationships
- 4. Growth mindset
- The power to see further and do more
- The ability to see beyond
- The value of a leadership growth mindset for innovation
- Rate of learning
- Curiosity and what's next
- How to be curious
- Curiosity for the people
- Creativity
- Creativity responds to context
- Is it possible in your organisation?
- 5. Empathy
- Going where few business leaders dare to tread
- What is empathy exactly?
- Empathy, people and innovation
- Empathy and your 'internal customer'
- The value of empathy in the ecosystem
- Empathy supports progress over perfection
- Getting the best out of your people
- It collapses the gap
- Empathy and your leadership capacity
- Practicing empathy
- Get a mentor
- Learn how to listen
- Show appreciation
- PART 3: THE TREASURE IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
- Outsourcing the journey for a cookie-cutter product
- Your organisation is its own Superman
- Be realistic about your treasure
- Getting the right people in
- How do we measure character?
- Painting a picture of character
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.