First Be Nimble: A Story About How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World
Author(s): Graham Winter (Author)
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2012
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1118329597
ISBN-13: 9781118329597
Book Description
The how-to guide to building an adaptive, productive business environment
Graham Winter, author of the best-selling Think One Team, brings you First Be Nimble: A Story About How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World 1st Edition. This book addresses the challenge of how to equip businesses to adapt and thrive in an unpredictable and demanding economy. Told in the form of a fable and illustrated with case studies and powerful tools, the book is designed to engage, inspire, and inform readers from all walks of business life.
Helping leaders, teams, and whole organisations to bring their values to the frontline of the battle to be adaptive and productive, First Be Nimble shows readers how to align people and teams, collaborate and co-create with others, reduce resistance to change, boost trust, personal resilience, and performance, and prepare for the unique challenges of adaptive change.
Helps businesses adapt to today’s environment, learn to innovate, and build a “one team'” mentality
Gives leaders the practical tools to facilitate change and foster the conversations that help people to learn and grow together
Uses a unique, fable-style format, with inspirational examples, to bring key concepts to life
While many business leaders are well versed in the importance of company values, they are often ignorant of how to bring them to life, and how to build an adaptive, high performing business. First Be Nimble is here to help.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
Imagine if you had the blueprint to create an agile and intelligent organisation that could handle anything that an unpredictable business world threw at it?
First Be Nimble is that blueprint, presented by best-selling author Graham Winter in an enthralling business story packed with easy-to-apply ideas and powerful tools linked to online resources.
The story: Fledgling international company McCrae’s Fine Chocolates has lost its innovative edge and become a reactive bureaucracy. Through a mix of courage, collaboration and digital-age strategies, McCrae’s confronts its challenges, breaks through the inevitable resistance to change, and transforms itself into a nimble and adaptive market leader.
This is your personal guidebook to gearing up for fast and frequent change. Learn how to:
move, learn and adapt—fast!
replace change resistance with change resilience
thrive in ambiguity and uncertainty
break through business bottlenecks
build a network of nimble, connected teams.
First Be Nimble is a must read for everyone who wants their organisation to thrive in this constantly changing business world.
From the Back Cover
Imagine if you had the blueprint to create an agile and intelligent organisation that could handle anything that an unpredictable business world threw at it?
First Be Nimble is that blueprint, presented by best-selling author Graham Winter in an enthralling business story packed with easy-to-apply ideas and powerful tools linked to online resources.
The story: Fledgling international company McCrae’s Fine Chocolates has lost its innovative edge and become a reactive bureaucracy. Through a mix of courage, collaboration and digital-age strategies, McCrae’s confronts its challenges, breaks through the inevitable resistance to change, and transforms itself into a nimble and adaptive market leader.
This is your personal guidebook to gearing up for fast and frequent change. Learn how to:
move, learn and adapt―fast!
replace change resistance with change resilience
thrive in ambiguity and uncertainty
break through business bottlenecks
build a network of nimble, connected teams.
First Be Nimble is a must read for everyone who wants their organisation to thrive in this constantly changing business world.
About the Author
Graham Winter is the best-selling author of Think One Team, founder of consultancy Think One Team International and a three-time Australian Olympic team chief psychologist. Graham is passionate about developing leaders and teams with the resilience and skills to seize opportunities.
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