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The Adaptation Advantage

Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work
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von: Heather E. McGowan, Chris Shipley, Thomas L. Friedman
18,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	09.04.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9781119653172
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	272

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A guide for individuals and organizations navigating the complex and ambiguous Future of Work Foreword by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman Technology is changing work as we know it. Cultural norms are undergoing tectonic shifts. A global pandemic proves that we are inextricably connected whether we choose to be or not. So much change, so quickly, is disorienting. It's undermining our sense of identity and challenging our ability to adapt. But where so many see these changes as threatening, Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley see the opportunity to open the flood gates of human potential—if we can change the way we think about work and leadership. They have dedicated the last 5 years to understanding how technical, business, and cultural shifts affecting the workplace have brought us to this crossroads, The result is a powerful and practical guide to the future of work for leaders and employees. The future can be better, but only if we let go of our attachment to our traditional (and disappearing) ideas about careers, and what a "good job" looks like. Blending wisdom from interviews with hundreds of executives, The Adaptation Advantage explains the profound changes happening in the world of work and posits the solution: new ways to think about careers that detach our sense of pride and personal identity from our job title, and connect it to our sense of purpose. Activating purpose, the authors suggest, will inherently motivate learning, engagement, empowerment, and lead to new forms of pride and identity throughout the workforce. Only when we let go of our rigid career identities can we embrace and appreciate the joys of learning and adapting to new realities—and help our organizations do the same. Of course, making this transition is hard. It requires leaders who can attract and motivate cognitively diverse teams fueled by a strong sense of purpose in an environment of psychological safety—despite fierce competition and external pressures. Adapting to the future of work has always called for strong leadership. Now, as a pandemic disrupts so many aspects of work, adapting is a leadership imperative. The Adaptation Advantage is an essential guide to help leaders meet that challenge.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xiv Introduction xix Breaking with Identity to Seize the Adaptation Advantage xix So What’s Changing? xx How Did We Get Here? xxi How Big is the Challenge? xxii The Adaptability Gap xxv Amid Rapid Change, Keep Calm and Adapt On xxvi So What’s in This Book? xviii Who is This Book For? xxix Notes xxx Part I: Adapting at the Speed of Change 1 1 The World is Fast: Technology is Changing Everything and Planting Opportunity Everywhere 3 Wait a Second 3 Technological Climate Change 5 Environmental Climate Change 8 Climate Change of the Market 10 The Force of Three Amplifying and Interlocking Climate Changes 12 Notes 15 2 The Only Things Moving Faster Than Technology are Cultural and Social Norms 17 Shifting Ground Beneath Our Feet 17 From Linear and Local to Exponential and Global 19 Race 20 Religion 22 Age 23 Family 25 Gender Identity 25 Truth and Trust 26 Consent and Power Shifts 28 Death of Distance Reshapes Human Relationships 30 So, Who are You? Occupational Identity and Expertise 30 Notes 32 3 You’re Already Adapting and Not Even Noticing 35 We’ve Already Begun to Outsource Our Memory 35 People Aren’t Horses 37 Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation 38 Atomization in Action 39 Automation in Action 39 Augmentation in Action 41 Putting Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation Together 41 Notes 46 4 Getting Comfortable with Adaptation: The Slowest Rate of Change is Happening Now 47 The Power of Pause 47 From Scalable Efficiency to Scalable Learning 48 From Stocks to Flows of Knowledge 53 From Learning to Work to Working to Learn Continuously 54 Identifying Patterns to Build Bridges 56 Notes 60 Part II: Letting Go and Learning Fast to Thrive 63 5 What Do You Do for a Living? The Question That Traps Us in the Past 65 The Questions That Limit Our Identity 65 The Identity Trap 71 How Identity is Formed 71 Narratives Can Trap Us in the Past and Limit Our Future 73 Gender, Narratives, and Identity 73 The Confidence Gap 74 Identity is Never Done 77 An Occupational Identity Crisis Isn’t Limited to Job Loss 78 Notes 80 6 Finding the Courage to Let Go of Occupational Identity 83 What Does the Parable of the Three Stonecutters Have to Do with You? 83 The Day 1 Mindset: You are a Prototype; Start with Why 85 How Job Loss Can Be a Gain 89 Modeling Vulnerability: We Share Our Hard Lessons 91 What Do You Do Now? 95 Notes 95 7 Learning Fast: Why an Agile Learning Mindset is Essential 97 Learn Fast—What Does That Even Mean? 97 What Do We Mean by Learning? First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Learning Organizations 98 The S-Curve of Learning: Explore, Experiment, Execute, Expand 99 The Curse of Expertise: The Challenge of Unlearning 102 The Iceberg: The Substance Beneath the Surface 102 Identity: The Core of the Adaptive Mind 103 The Agile Learning Mindset 104 The Enablers: Uniquely Human Skills 108 Why We Need the Agile Mindset: The Broken Education-to-Work Pipeline 111 ABL: Always Be Learning 114 Notes 114 8 Rise of the Humans: Developing Your Creativity, Empathy, and Other Uniquely Human Capabilities 117 Play is the Way Forward 117 The Uniqueness of the Human Drive to Learn and Create 119 The Predictive Markets Declare Future Skills Favor Humans 122 Understanding Uniquely Human Skills 127 Chasing STEM at Our Peril 128 The Skills Battleground: Humans Need Apply 132 The Return on Being Human 133 Return on Humans for All Jobs: The Special Power of Empathy 134 Evolving Beyond Shareholder Value: The Purpose of a Company 135 To Maximize Human Potential, Place the Human in the Center 137 Notes 139 Part III: Leading People and Organizations in the Evolution of Work 143 9 Leading in Continuous Change: Modeling Vulnerability, Learning from Failure, and Providing the Psychological Safety that Builds Trusting Teams 145 You are at the Wheel 146 Leadership, Power, Cookies, and Chickens 146 What Makes a Modern Leader? 153 Transformational Leadership 167 Transformational Leadership and Change Management Models 168 Leading with Fear: The Burning Platform 170 Putting It All Together 173 Notes 173 10 The Adaptive Organization: Creating the Capacity to Change at the Speed of Technology, Market, and Social Evolution 175 What Should We Measure? 175 The Power of the Culture and Capacity Focus 177 Culture at the Core 177 Capacity: Culture’s Partner 184 Capability and Context: The Scissors Metaphor 186 In Accelerated Change, Focus on the Inputs Rather Than the Outputs 187 Becoming a Learning Company 190 Notes 193 11 Capability is King: Looking Beyond the Resume to Design Your Adaptive Team 195 No More Little Boxes 195 The Job Description is History 197 Job Descriptions Become Traps 198 Fire Your Job Description 200 Hire for Cultural Alignment 205 Hire Adults and Let Them Do Their Jobs 208 Turn the Right People into Great Teams 209 Embrace Cognitive Diversity 212 Get Comfortable with Failure 214 Live in a State of Continuous Learning 215 Manage a Multigenerational Workforce 216 How Do We Get from Here to There? 217 The New Leadership Imperative 218 Notes 219 12 Getting Ready to Seize Your Adaptation Advantage 221 Notes 223 Additional Resources 225 Books 225 Videos 226 Acknowledgments 227 About the Authors 229 Index 231

Autorenportrait

HEATHER E. MCGOWAN (www.heathermcgowan.com) is an in-demand, internationally known speaker and Future of Work Strategist. She assists corporate clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in rethinking their business models, teams, and organizational structures to become resilient in changing markets. CHRIS SHIPLEY (www.cshipley.com) spent thirty years entrenched in the technology industry as a journalist and technology analyst, observing and predicting business and social transformations brought about by digital innovation. She advises companies on positioning, business modeling, and innovation practices, and serves on the boards of several startups and advisory panels.

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Praise for the adaptation advantage "An indispensable guide to navigate this new era in the workplace." —Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times "The Adaptation Advantage is a masterclass in how individuals and organizations can and must develop the capacity to change fast and learn faster. Whether you were born digital or born analog, this book is your indispensable resource for thriving in a world that is transforming as you read this." —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge Learn to thrive in the Future of Work What do you do? That social ice breaker imprisons us in the past. In a fast-changing world, we have to look past our work-based identity, move beyond the comfort of our current knowledge and skills, and prepare ourselves and the organizations we lead to adapt continuously to a rapidly changing future of work. Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley share three core beliefs. First, success in the future of work centers on our ability to learn, unlearn, and adapt. Second, to succeed, we need to let go of "the way we've always done it" and—more importantly—our professional identities. Third, leaders must get comfortable with failure, not knowing, ambiguity, and vulnerability to create the requisite psychological safety to lead our teams. Economic and social shifts are unavoidable. With the lessons found in The Adaptation Advantage, you'll learn to ride these waves to a more successful and fulfilling future of your work.

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Advanced Praise for The Adaptation Advantage "The Adaptation Advantage is the clearest, most compelling, and original examination of the present and future workplace. The big surprise in this book is that it's not about learning to live with more robots, but rather learning to become more human. Whether you were born digital or born analog, The Adaptation Advantage is an indispensable resource for thriving in a world that is transforming as you read this." —Jim Kouzes, Coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business "Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley are prophets of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Their extraordinary insights and tools challenge and empower organizations, leaders, and people across society to thrive in a future marked by exceptional technological and societal change." —Major General James Johnson, U.S. Air Force (ret), former Director of Air Force Integrated Resilience The Adaptation Advantage makes sense of the confusing and scary world of change. McGowan and Shipley give us permission to be entrepreneurial by exploring the natural pathway to engagement in a context of uncertainty. Reading this book is a therapy session with motivational power. You’ll want to reread it again and again. —Stephen Spinelli Jr., PhD., President, Babson College, co-founder of Jiffy Lube "Most books about the future of work put automation at the center of the story. McGowan and Shipley put humans at the center—as well they should. The Adaptive Advantage is a call to stop defining ourselves by our jobs, to extend formal education into lifelong learning, and to let curiosity lead us through the arc of our working lives. That way we remain resilient no matter how strong the waves of change become. Many essential capabilities can’t be replaced...creativity, collaboration, judgment, sensemaking, empathy, and other forms of social and emotional intelligence are uniquely human. While technology will continue to influence the way we work we have immense agency to determine and design what we do and why we do it." —Sandy Speicher, CEO, IDEO "How thrilling to read the book that encourages us to see change as a propellant, not a weight! This is an insightful explanation of the velocity and force of the elements of change. It offers leaders the insight and capability to creatively lead transformations." —Lynne Greene, Former Group President, Estee Lauder Companies "McGowan and Shipley's The Adaptation Advantage nails it—adapting to change means adapting to a new identity It requires letting go of a job or skill-based identity in order to thrive in a world of rapidly changing societal norms and technologies. This is important reading." —Jim Spohrer, PhD., IBM Director, Cognitive Open Technologies