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Epidemic Leadership

How to Lead Infectiously in the Era of Big Problems
1. Aufl.

von: Larry McEvoy
18,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	25.08.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781119787464
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	256

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Titelbeschreibung

A science-based leadership framework for building capacity and overcoming exhaustion in today’s complex world Epidemic Leadership introduces an adaptive leadership approach designed to help you (and your followers) thrive and influence in today’s complex age. This book provides a how-to methodology for simply and practically putting the principles of epidemic phenomena into successful practice. By understanding their function in adaptive systems and applying their organizing principles to daily work, you can lead more effectively for greater results, more agile responsiveness, and deeper vitality. Epidemic Leadership synthesizes science, stories of leadership experience, and practical technique to shape the challenge of “leading in complex environments” into a compelling field guide for leaders who seek to improve results and contribute to a healthier world. You will be inspired, challenged, and practically equipped to begin a journey toward exponential positive impact in this pivotal era. <ul> <li>Discover a novel leadership approach that’s particularly applicable to tackling the big problems in your workplace and world </li> <li>Realize better performance and enhance your ability to create results sooner and more sustainably, across a wider array of processes and topics </li> <li>Restore vitality in yourself and those you lead, for renewed hope, enthusiasm and engagement </li> </ul> Companies and institutions will benefit from the deep capacities Epidemic Leadership builds. For leaders who struggle to find enough time and energy to create the impact they seek, this book offers a unique path for our challenging times.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction xiii Part One Understanding Epidemics 1 1 My No Good, Very Bad Night in the Emergency Department 3 Friday Night in the Emergency Department 3 August 15, 2003, Billings, Montana 3 The Problem That Won’t Go Away 8 Sleep-Deprived Insight 11 Notes 13 2 The Good Epidemic—Really? 15 Good People, Bad Disease 15 The Epidemic Inevitable 17 Negative to Positive 23 Epidemics Spread Exponentially 24 Epidemics Tap Local Resources 25 Epidemics Are Adaptive: They Flourish Against Resistance and Surprise 26 Epidemics Organize Themselves 26 Epidemics Have “Distributed Intelligence” 27 Epidemics Flower in Instability and Disruption 27 Epidemics Offer a Vaccine Against Narcissism (Unless They’re Traffickers of It) 28 Seeking the Good Disease 29 Notes 30 3 Swarming Simplicity 33 How Do They Do It? 33 The Challenge of Complexity 36 It’s Not Just Complicated 37 The Power of Simplicity 40 The Miracle of Self-Organization 40 Popping Up When We Least Expect It 41 Is Complexity a New “Thing”? 42 What Does Leading Look Like in Complexity? 43 Biology’s Answer to Leading: PLV 46 How Are Epidemics and Leaders Doing in Complexity? 48 How Leaders Do in Complexity 49 Epidemics Invite a New Framework 50 Key Questions for Leaders 51 The Math Problem Leaders Face 52 Notes 54 4 Something from Nothing 57 In the Shade of the Mango Tree 57 March, 2018, Masese Town, Jinja District, Uganda 57 Miracle Parts 60 How Do They Do It? 60 Part 1: The Pathogen 61 Part 2: Infection 63 Part 3: Contagion 65 From Simple Parts to Organizing Principles 67 Epidemics Require “Originating Conditions” 69 Epidemics Require “Defined Interaction” 70 Epidemics Require Multipliers 72 Epidemics Move Through Networks, a Particularly Powerful Multiplier 73 The Mango Tree, a Year Later 76 Part Two Creating Epidemics 77 5 The Potential Power of Pathogen 79 An Idea Core with Attracting Hooks 79 The SAND Pneumonic 84 A = Attractive Antigens 85 N = Novel 87 D = Dual Interest 87 Naming the HELP Pathogen 89 Notes 91 6 Creating Conditions 93 Spaces, Containers, and Fields 94 A Man and a Horse 96 The Gravity of Conditions 100 Thinking Conditions: Growth Mindset and Polarity Thinking 103 Spatial Conditions: Creating Space and Container 109 Physiological Conditions: Setting the Stage for Relatedness 114 Notes 125 7 Designing Interaction 127 The Power of Cellular Processes 127 Principles of Infectious and Contagious Interaction Design 135 ACE Interaction 136 A = Affirmation/Appreciation 137 C = Curiosity 139 E = Empathy 140 Create Past-Future Reflection-Action Loops 141 Short-Simple-Small (S3) 143 Go Novel 144 From Principles to Patterns 145 How Leaders Build Interaction Rules 150 Notes 154 8 Multipliers 159 The Value of Many 159 Different Kinds of Social Pathogens 162 Resistance Is Everywhere 163 Building Multipliers 164 Easy Addition 164 Broadcasting and Storytelling 167 Mix Numbers and Times 169 Loop Backs to Loop Forward 177 How Leaders Leverage Multipliers 178 Notes 181 9 Networks: The Ultimate Multiplier 183 Network Implications for Epidemics 188 Networks Have Structure, Called Topology 189 Network Content Counts 191 Networks Have Interaction Rules between Nodes via Connections 192 Nodes Count, Too! 192 Help That Can Hurt : How Networks Influence Contagion 193 Leveraging Networks to Facilitate Contagion 196 Map, Model, and Move 197 Get People Off Narrow Bridges and Onto New Islands 198 Make Homophily Happen 199 Killer App: The 3D Network 202 Notes 203 10 Technology and Epidemics 205 Technology Risks to Positive Epidemics 208 Disinformation 208 Diminished Attention 209 Degraded Relatedness 209 Anti-emergence 210 Leveraging Technology to Support Epidemic Action 211 Inviting, Broadcasting, and Convening 211 Mixing Things Up 212 Designing Interaction 213 Mapping, Modeling, and Learning 214 Notes 215 11 Toward Positive Pestilence 217 Foundational Shifts from Leaders 222 Collective Intelligence 222 Linking Homophily and Diversity 224 More Biophilia 225 Epidemic Leadership as a Platform 225 Notes 226 Acknowledgments 229 About the Author 231 Index 233

Autorenportrait

LARRY MCEVOY is an emergency physician, executive, entrepreneur, and innovator. He is the founder of Epidemic Leadership, where he focuses on the executive work of creating organizations of exponential performance, adaptivity, and vigor. From 2008 to 2012, McEvoy served as the CEO of Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, CO. He completed his training in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center and graduated from Stanford Medical School. When he is not working with leaders to create positive epidemics, he can be found, or difficult to find, roaming the wild lands of his Montana homeland.

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Praise for EPIDEMIC LEADERSHIP “Epidemic Leadership is a brilliant and timely book. Larry McEvoy, M.D., looking through the lens of an emergency physician, realizes that epidemics can teach us powerful, positive, and practical lessons about leading. Those lessons are not about people at the top using authority to control how things get done. From the perspective of an epidemic, leadership is now about swarming patterns among interconnected networks of people. Epidemic Leadership engages readers in looking at big problems in a whole new way, inviting all of us to become much more curious about the complex world we live in. McEvoy also goes beyond questions and offers practical applications of the principles of epidemics. This book deserves to go viral, and you will want to be one of those who spreads this infectious message.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Rice University “Epidemic Leadership reminds us that biology shows us the rules and that we can use those rules to build a better world. Mind-bending and practical at the same time.” —Joshua Newman, MD, MSHS, Physician Executive “I watched Epidemic Leadership principles transform our school in Uganda as students and staff alike participated. I’ll never again approach leadership in the same way, and I suspect after reading this book, neither will you.” —Jean-Kaye Wilson, President, H.E.L.P. International “Dr. McEvoy masterfully illustrates how we might use the dynamics that power epidemics to lead in a way that adds to the world rather than steals from it.” —Craig Bardenheuer, Founder, Create-Innovate-Operate, former VP of Business Innovation, Juniper Networks “A giant leap for how we must see leadership in our times: participatory, infectious, adaptive, agile, and everywhere!” —Arvind Singhal, PhD, Marston Endowed Professor of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso and William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow, Clinton School of Public Service “Larry McEvoy nails it: leadership during these times is about convening a community that can create impact through a different kind of relatedness. His translation of biology to practical approaches is provocative and powerful.” —Helen Prejean, CSJ, author, Dead Man Walking “We talk a lot about leading innovation. Epidemic Leadership talks about how to innovate leadership itself.” —Jeffery Adler, CEO, iProtean