Book description
Future First is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand, or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges. Traditional companies often view issues like income equality, global warming, and resource scarcity as "problems." By contrast, future first leaders understand them as opportunities, as innovation challenges.
Through real-life business examples ranging from Nike to Opower, this book lays out how to identify and adopt the future first leadership mindset and business capabilities required to achieve lasting and integrated performance results. Future First examines how leaders from companies including Unilever, Etsy, Revolution Foods, Method Products, and others have adopted this mindset toward innovation and people practices, accelerating business ecosystem transformation.
Alice Mann, an organizational psychologist with twenty years of experience consulting and coaching on executive leadership, organization design, and business transformation, interviewed scores of business leaders to understand how their companies are expanding into new value frontiers. Future First makes a convincing argument that successful partnerships and alliances among big global companies and small mission-driven ones can reshape the global ecosystems of apparel, food, automobiles, and energy, and remake the future of our world.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Praise
- Future First
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Winning at the Value Frontier of the Future
- 1 The Power to Change Everything
- 2 Embracing Our Biggest Innovation Challenges
- 3 Selecting the Future with Big Questions
- 4 Free Your Mindset
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5 Future-proofing your Leadership
- Embracing Innovation Challenges
- Switching your Mindset Out of the Present Tense
- Adopting Integrative Thinking
- Expanding the Values in All Business Decisions
- Ecosystems: No Business is an Island
- Trade-offs are Not the Only Answer
- Checklist #1. Developing your Future First Mindset as a Leader
- Checklist #2. Developing Future First Mindset as an Executive Team
- Notes
- 6 Building Future First DNA into Etsy, Apple, and Nike
- 7 The Value of Future First Talent Strategies
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8 Multiplying your Impact through Ecosystem Partnerships
- The David and Goliath Partnership
- Expanding your Mission with an Acquisition
- Joining Forces with your Competition through an Ecosystem Coalition
- Paving the Way for New Government and Consumer Choices
- Scaling Up the Alternative Into Something Bigger and Better
- Surprising Elements of Ecosystem Partnerships
- Notes
- Epilogue: Future First in the Era of Backwards Politics
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: Future First
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2018
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781351262064
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