Leading in a Non-Linear World

Leading in a Non-Linear World

by Jean Gomes
Released December 2022
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119672722

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Book description

Unlock the full potential of your organization in a rapidly transforming world with this explosive resource

Leading in a Non-Linear World: Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future, leads readers through a groundbreaking set of science-based strategies to help them face rising demand, uncertainty and change posed by disruptive technologies and seismic shifts in globalisation. The book shows how our mindset, more than our knowledge and expertise, has the potential to be our greatest asset in facing the future. Jean Gomes reviews the latest brain research revealing that our mindset is the interplay of feeling, thinking, and seeing, and how we can build it to significantly increase our wellbeing and performance.

For over 30 years Jean Gomes has worked with many of the world’s most successful leaders in the corporate and sporting world, helping them to harness the emerging science of mindset. His clients include Warner Music, Nike, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, eBay, Coca-Cola, UK Sport, Condé Nast, Microsoft, Manchester City Football Club and BMW. He is co-author of the New York Times best seller; The Way We're Working Isn't Working and the founder and CEO of the research-based consultancy, Outside.

Leading in a Non-Linear World provides readers with a new science-based definition of mindset and the tools to:

  • Build and strengthen their mindset
  • Increase their sustainability and wellbeing
  • Understand and build the ultimate strategic mindset
  • Learn how to create the mindset that's foundational to the success of the world's fastest growing companies
  • How to build an open mindset that allows leaders to create flexible, adaptive cultures capable of naturally responding to change

Perfect for CEOs, Chief Innovation Officers, business leaders, digital officers, and anyone in a managerial or supervisory role, Leading in a Non-Linear World shows leaders how to shift their thinking and realize explosive growth in a world that demands nothing less.

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. PART 1: THE NEW SCIENCE OF MINDSET AND SELF-AWARENESS
    1. CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS MINDSET?
      1. CREATING A BIGGER INNER WORLD
    2. CHAPTER 2: CONSCIOUSNESSES – OUR SENSE OF SELF
      1. THE PREDICTING BRAIN
    3. CHAPTER 3: WHAT YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU
      1. EMPATHY AND INTEROCEPTION
    4. CHAPTER 4: RETHINKING EMOTIONS
      1. CLASSICAL VS CONSTRUCTED VIEWS OF EMOTIONS
      2. THE VALUE OF EMOTIONAL GRANULARITY
      3. WHAT ARE POSITIVE EMOTIONS FOR?
      4. THINKING MORE CLEARLY WITH META EMOTION
    5. CHAPTER 5: THINK – THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT DEFINE US
      1. WHAT WE BELIEVE INFLUENCES OBJECTIVE REALITY
      2. ASSUMPTION BUSTING – DEEP DISRUPTIVE THINKING
      3. HOW TO BUILD AN ASSUMPTION-BUSTING LOG
      4. THE ART OF ASKING AND BEING ASKED DISRUPTIVE QUESTIONS
    6. CHAPTER 6: SEE – THE FRAMES WE HOLD
      1. WE SEE WHAT ONCE WAS
      2. DO WE SEE WHAT WE FEEL?
      3. THE FRAMES WE HOLD
      4. RECONCILING VS MANAGING PARADOXES
      5. REIMAGINE
      6. ARE YOU THINKING OR SEEING?
    7. CHAPTER 7: METACOGNITION – STRATEGIC SELF-AWARENESS
      1. IMPROVING METACOGNITION
    8. CHAPTER 8: HOW TO BUILD A MINDSET
      1. 1. WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?
      2. 2. WHAT ARE YOU SOLVING FOR?
      3. 3. WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS TELLING YOU?
      4. 4. REFRAME TO FEEL/THINK/SEE/ACT DIFFERENTLY
      5. TWO KEYS TO STRENGTHENING SELF-AWARENESS
    9. CHAPTER 9: MINDSET-BUILDING EXPERIMENTS
      1. THE BODY SCAN
      2. MEASURE YOUR INTEROCEPTIVE ACCURACY
      3. KEEP A PERSONAL ASSUMPTION LOG
      4. WALKING MEETINGS
      5. SWITCHING ON DIVERGENT THINKING
      6. FOCUSED BREATHING
      7. HAVE A DOUBTFUL 30 MINUTES
      8. SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE UNLIKE YOU
      9. EMOTIONAL JUDGEMENT
      10. RETHINKING CONFLICT
      11. IMPROVING EMOTIONAL GRANULARITY
      12. MEET YOUR 80-YEAR-OLD SELF
  6. PART 2: BUILDING MINDSETS FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK AND LIFE
    1. CHAPTER 10: A MORE HUMAN MINDSET – ALIVE, OPEN, AND CONNECTED
      1. THE NEGATIVE NORMAL
      2. THE AGE OF AUTOPILOT
      3. DEPLETED, DEFENSIVE, DISCONNECTED
      4. THE KNOWING–DOING GAP
      5. NUMBNESS
      6. INSUFFICIENT PURPOSE
      7. BREAKING THE INTELLIGENCE TRAP
      8. RECOGNISING RUMINATION
      9. HOW CAN YOU FIND THE BLIND SPOT?
      10. AN EXPERIMENT IN BUILDING RADICAL SELF-AWARENESS
    2. CHAPTER 11: FUTURE NOW – THE ULTIMATE STRATEGIC MINDSET
      1. THE ENTROPY PROBLEM
      2. THE FATAL (BASELINE) ASSUMPTION
      3. THE VALUE TRILEMMA
      4. THE PAST PRESENT ORGANISATION: 95/5 FOCUS
      5. THE FUTURE NOW ORGANISATION
      6. CREATING A SYMBIOSIS WITH THE FUTURE
      7. BREAKING THE IMMEDIACY CYCLE
      8. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A FUTURE NOW ORGANISATION?
      9. ALWAYS DAY ONE: THE PERPETUAL ASSUMPTION
      10. 70/30: KNOWING HOW TO DISTINGUISH RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
      11. DISCERNING FOUR HORIZONS OF OPPORTUNITY
      12. HORIZON 4 – WHAT IGNORANCE ARE WE (INTENTIONALLY) GENERATING?
      13. A NORTH STAR
      14. PURPOSE SHOULD CHALLENGE US
      15. INDUSTRIALISING IMAGINATION
      16. ACTIVE TOLERANCE
      17. A FUTURE NOW DIAGNOSTIC
    3. CHAPTER 12: THE EXPERIMENTAL MINDSET
      1. THE LIMITS OF PLAN AND ACT
      2. GOALS VS PROBLEMS
      3. CURIOSITY IS LIFE. ASSUMPTION IS DEATH (MARK PARKER, CHAIRMAN, NIKE)
      4. STAY WITH THE PROBLEM LONGER
      5. HOW TO GET BETTER AT BEING WRONG
      6. LINEAR VS NON-LINEAR
      7. ARE WE SOLVING OR REIMAGING?
      8. RATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL
      9. SUSTAINABILITY
      10. IDENTITY
      11. THE PERILS OF SELF-EXPRESSION
      12. YOU ARE NOT YOUR IDEAS
      13. THE POWER OF THE CHECK-IN
    4. CHAPTER 13: THE OPEN MINDSET
      1. OPEN MINDSETS
      2. OPEN TEAMS
      3. BUILDING SHARED AWARENESS
      4. HOW TO USE THE MINDSET QUADRANTS
      5. BUILDING OPEN CULTURE
      6. RECOGNISING THE DEFENSIVE MINDSET AT WORK
      7. OPEN ORGANISATIONS
      8. IS THERE A SWITCH MARKED ‘OPEN’ IN YOUR ORGANISATION?
      9. OPEN MINDSETS CREATE ABUNDANCE
  7. PART 3: MINDSETS IN MOTION
    1. CHAPTER 14: BUILDING A FUTURE NOW ORGANISATION
      1. THE GROWTH HUB
      2. EXTERNALISING IMI
      3. ASSUMPTION BUSTING
      4. BALANCING RISK, AMBITION, AND REALITY
      5. MANGING THE VALUE TRILEMMA
      6. THE REAL MEANING OF GROWTH MINDSET
      7. LEARNING TO LIVE AND THRIVE WITH FAILURE
      8. BREAKING THE RULES
  8. CONCLUSION
  9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  10. REFERENCES
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. CHAPTER 1
    3. CHAPTER 2
    4. CHAPTER 3
    5. CHAPTER 4
    6. CHAPTER 5
    7. CHAPTER 6
    8. CHAPTER 7
    9. CHAPTER 8
    10. CHAPTER 9
    11. CHAPTER 10
    12. CHAPTER 11
    13. CHAPTER 12
    14. CHAPTER 13
    15. CHAPTER 14
  11. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  12. INDEX
  13. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Product information

  • Title: Leading in a Non-Linear World
  • Author(s): Jean Gomes
  • Release date: December 2022
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119672722