How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 406 g
ISBN: 978-1-118-17327-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
The "primes" are universal and unavoidable patterns of group behavior that emerge whenever people attempt to transform systems or collaborate to solve complex problems. Every change agent has felt their effect, but few can recognize, anticipate, and manage them. Unacknowledged, the primes can put any leadership agenda at risk. Once mastered, the primes become a force that drives intended outcomes. The Primes is a field manual for anyone ready to step up to serious challenges, predict and manage inevitable problems, create a brighter future, and produce extraordinary results.
An essential guide for 21st century problem solvers and change agents, The Primes unveils 47 universal secrets of how to:
* Tackle complex problems successfully and deliver extraordinary results on time
* Forge lasting consensus among competing interests and keep teams focused and productive
* Recognize and eliminate the most destructive forces in an organization
* Establish cultures of integrity
The Primes gives leaders the edge they need to succeed. Once the primes are revealed, you'll see them everywhere!
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Contents
Introduction
All Prime titles are to be printed in PMS 1795 U
PART 1: Universal Patterns For Leading In Uncertain Times
How are some people thriving in these uncertain times? What enables them to appear so certain and to take such decisive action in all this ambiguity about the future?
Chapter 1 Being Clear on What's Really Important
How did you decide how you spent your time yesterday? What criteria are you using to allocate your time tomorrow?
PRIME LeadING
Does being called a 'Leader' mean you are 'Leading'? What does 'Leading' mean?
PRIME IN - ON
Are you seduced by working 'in' the business at the expense of 'on' it?
PRIME CHANGE VS. TRANSFORMATION
Are you fixing or creating?
Chapter 2 Being Intentional and Going First
What are you committed to making happen and by when? What does 'committed' mean? What does your commitment mean to others?
PRIME InteGrity
Does your 'yes' mean 'yes' really?
PRIME Trust the Universe
Is your vision limited to what you've already seen?
PRIME Declaration
Are you willing to live unreasonably?
Chapter 3 Enrolling Others
Can you call people, from disenfranchisement and mere compliance, to their highest level of commitment?
PRIME Dynamic Incompleteness
Can you create a vision that is compelling because of what it says and at the same time inviting--for what it leaves yet to be said?
PRIME Enoblement
Does your vision elevate people in degree, excellence, and respect and inspire them to act boldly?
PRIME POWER
Do you know how to turn strangers, competitors, cautious allies, and suspicious stakeholders into powerful, outcome driven, coalitions?
PART 2: Universal Patterns of Powerful Alliances
How do you generate unprecedented power within the group? Is this question all that important to you?
Chapter 4 Gaining Shared Perspective
Everyone claims to value diversity. Can maintaining diverse perspectives ever be a bad thing?
PRIME Blind Men and the elephant
How do you get people to see the 'whole thing'?
PRIME Levels of perspective
How do you get people to see the same 'whole thing'?
PRIME S-CURVES
How do you get people to a shared sense of now?
Chapter 5 Establishing Shared Intent
How do you get the group to be intentional?
PRIME core prime
How do you get the group focused on the right things and feeling urgent about acting?
PRIME parity
What is the right ratio of analyzing vs. imagining?
PRIME stake
How do you get the group 'all in'?
Chapter 6 Taking Coordinated Action
How do you get the group to persistently do everything about a few critical things versus doing a few things about everything?
PRIME cohesion
Cohesion is an unnatural state for a group. How good are you at establishing and sustaining it?
PRIME Redpoint
A good question to ask is 'What is important to do?' A better question is 'Of all the important things we could do, what are the fewest, most important?'
PRIME MUDA
Can you distinguish 'non-value added activity'? How much of your group's resources is it consuming?
PART 3: Universal Patterns of Outstanding Group Performance
What do high performance groups know and do that low performance groups do not?
Chapter 7 Making Decisions
What does the word 'decision' actually mean? How are decision made?
PRIME leadership spectrum
Are you the kind of leader that likes to facilitate consensus? The right answer is 'That depends'.
PRIME Concensus
Are you still using the traditional definition of consensus? Are you aware of how destructive the traditional definition is?
PRIME Open-close-decide
How do groups actually make decisions?
Chapter 8 Building An Intentional Culture
Quick - What does 'culture' mean? There are consequences of using more than 7 words to define culture.
PRIMEculture
Culture Happens. You shape it or it shapes you. How good are you at shaping a culture?
PRIME congruence
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