Rapid Reculturing

Transforming Organizations at Pace and Scale
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-394-40955-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten

How can we lead for success in the age of AI? An answer to the leadership crisis facing today’s organizations

Rapid Reculturing: Transforming Organizations at Pace and Scale takes on one of the biggest issues facing today’s business world. To thrive in an AI-powered world, organizations need an entirely new approach. In this book, award-winning authors Alex Bailey and Kerri O’Neill offer a fresh, science-backed model for building sustainable high performance in the AI era. With traditional change models breaking down under the pressures of AI, diversity, five generations at work, and burnout rates skyrocketing, leaders urgently need a new playbook. If you’re looking for a shortcut to creating a culture that works in the Intelligence Age, this book is for you. It will ignite you to shed the practices that no longer serve us and respond to the demand for more human, adaptive leadership for a complex world. - Lead culture change to support high performance in the complex, fast-paced “Intelligence Age”
- Identify and replace leadership practices that are no longer effective in today’s world
- Become more adaptive, so you and your organization can thrive amid ongoing change

- Tackle employee burnout and high turnover, boosting productivity without sacrificing the people who make it happen

This book inspires a mindset shift in business leaders, HR professionals, and transformation consultants. With Re-Culturing Your Organization at Pace and Scale, you can ride the tide of AI-driven change and come out on top.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, Alex

O'Neill, Kerri

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xv

Introduction 1

PART I Why Rapid Reculturing? 15

Chapter 1 Facing the Truth About Where We Are 21
Chapter 2 Why Organizations Are Failing to Shape Culture 31
Chapter 3 What Reculturing Could Do for Us 47

PART II Rapid Reculturing Explained 63

Chapter 4 Introducing Three Zones and Four Drivers 65
Chapter 5 Reculturing Driver 1: Activating Shared Purpose 71
Chapter 6 Reculturing Driver 2: Mindsets as a New Approach to Defining Culture 93
Chapter 7 Reculturing Driver 3: Use Energy to Assess Cultural Health 115
Chapter 8 Reculturing Driver 4: Human Connection in Any Setting 133

PART III How to Reculture at Pace and Scale 153

Chapter 9 Armoring 155
Chapter 10 Awareness (Building) 171
Chapter 11 Alliances 193
Chapter 12 Acceleration 217
Chapter 13 Attention 233

Conclusion: Rapid Reculturing at Pace and Scale 247
References 251
Acknowledgments 263
About the Authors 265
Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

ALEX BAILEY is a leader in human-centered organizational transformation and leadership development. She is a multi-award-winning psychologist, business owner, and executive advisor who works with senior leaders navigating the human realities of power, pressure, and change. With over two decades of experience at the board and executive levels across all industries and markets both private and public sector in all regions of the world, Bailey brings evidence-based organizational psychology to leadership and decision-making in complex, high-stakes environments across business and government.

KERRI O’NEILL is a Chief People Officer, board strategist, author and qualified executive coach. She is a global expert in optimizing organizations through culture, talent, and large-scale technology-driven transformation. She created the UK’s online safety regulatory capability from scratch, led 12,000 people through one of the most public corporate collapses of recent years, and built one of the FTSE 100’s earliest People Analytics functions. Kerri is Chief People Officer at Ipsos UK & Ireland and its Global AI Workforce Transformation Lead, sits on the UK CIPD AI Advisory Board, is named one of HR’s 30 Most Influential Leaders, and is a Trustee and Honorary Officer of Oxfam GB.