Adaptive Organization

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context - whether in the private or the public sector - many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.

Transforming organizations is a complex, fluid endeavor far removed from the rigid, step-by-step processes of traditional change management. 'The 6 Big Ideas of Adaptable Organizations' equips change agents with the insights and approaches needed to navigate this complexity effectively. This book explores six pivotal concepts: The 2 Change Strategies of Effective Organizations: Delve into the dichotomy between optimizing existing systems and evolving organizational beliefs for profound transformation. The 5 Universals of Change: Learn why fostering a common purpose and embracing meaningful ...

Daniel Siegel, bestselling author and one of the leading researchers on the neuroscience of mindfulness, talks about creating adaptive, resilient organizations.

To edge out the competition in today's disruptive environment, you need to ensure that your company is agile - that it can respond to change instantly and effectively. Because fast and furious change is the only thing you can count on in business today. Network expert Michael Arena helped enable GM's legendary turnaround. In this book, he explains how you can transform your own company through the concept of adaptive space.

In This is Beyond Budgeting: A Guide to More Adaptive and Human Organizations, award-winning author Bjarte Bogsnes describes a tested and proven way of making organizations more adaptive and human. This involves radically changing traditional management, including the budgeting process, the central nervous system of rigid and bureaucratic organizations. In this book, you’ll learn to establish a highly decentralized and dynamic management model with more adaptive and self-regulating processes, designed in line with and not against human nature.

Artificial Intelligence is not just another technology trend. It is the defining force of our generation, reshaping industries, disrupting business models, and rewriting the rules of competition. Yet, over half of corporate AI initiatives fail. Why? Because they focus on algorithms instead of organizations. In AI-Ready, you get the missing playbook. This is not a book about coding Python or the technical specs of neural networks. This is a strategic leader's guide to transforming your entire organization—its culture, talent, ethics, and operations—to harness the full power of AI. Inside...

The essential companion to The Cybernetic Enterprise: a precise, reference-only Body of Knowledge that distills the foundations of modern, AI-powered organizations. Get crisp definitions, origins, interfaces, and canonical sources across Cybernetics, Systems Thinking, Lean, Agile, Architecture, Platform Engineering, AI & CPS, and DevOps, so teams share one vocabulary and make better decisions faster. Foundations of The Cybernetic Enterprise is the companion volume to The Cybernetic Enterprise. It contains only the Body of Knowledge: concise reference entries on the disciplines behind the ...

The Nine Principles of Agile Planning teaches CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, and Finance leaders the secret to building nimble and dynamic forecasts within their organizations. The Nine Principles blend real-world processes, people, and cloud tech to get your business forecasting the right way. By adopting the Nine Principles, you can create world-class forecasting that reacts to real-time changes in your business and reduces risk. You will be a forecasting hero! Too many CFOs and Finance teams fail their organizations with slow and cumbersome forecasting and budgeting cycles that have limited adoption ...

This elegant method prompts listeners to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to careful observation. The second invites you to thoughtfully consider options and implications. The third ignites effective action. Together, these questions, and the tools that support them, produce a dynamic and creative dance with uncertainty.

This is the story of a Russian-born Israeli expat who relocated to Bangalore for six months to set up a small software development centre. 18 years later, after the center had grown to 2,500 employees, he looked back on a journey leading from denial to acceptance to love of India. The book offers a toolkit of surprising ideas, metaphors, and stories around organizational structure, Scrum, delivery pipelines, and refactoring. It is also a case study of adaptive transformation. To survive the corporate axe, a division of 1,200 engineers must cut costs and double its efficiency. Are frequent ...

Explore your amazingly adaptable body. Tight hip flexors, rounded shoulders and a hunched back are all products of our daily lifestyles. We are adaptoids; our bodies are designed to adapt to our surroundings, and understanding this is the key to unlocking perfect performance. Adaptive Training takes you through the fundamentals of understanding adaptive training while providing a detailed physical fitness program to help you build an environment that facilitates a healthy and empowering new lifestyle fitness journey with new lifestyle fitness equipment. Unlock your true potential.

12X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, and Workplace Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. In today's era of constant change and disruption...

What if Human Resources wasn’t about programs, compliance, or metrics, but about rediscovering the hidden language of being human at work? In The Song of Peoplese, Pravir Malik weaves a narrative through Maya’s eyes, a leader searching for meaning in an environment where people are reduced to outputs and spreadsheets. Along the way, Maya rediscovers the spark of wonder, the wisdom of instincts, and the deeper rhythms of life that organizations so often forget. Through story, metaphor, and practical guidance, this book introduces Peoplese, a living language for HR that grows not from ...

Escaping Tatum City was all Lune wanted. Now that she's out, freedom is beyond her reach more than ever. Her adoptive father knows her weaknesses. And if she fails to find Bren and complete her mission, he won't hesitate to exploit each one. To complicate matters further, Ryker, her wildly unpredictable companion, has a mission of his own. Lune quickly discovers that he'll do whatever is necessary to see it through too.

To edge out the competition in today's disruptive environment, you need to ensure that your company is agile - that it can respond to change instantly and effectively. Because fast and furious change is the only thing you can count on in business today. Network expert Michael Arena helped enable GM's legendary turnaround. In this book, he explains how you can transform your own company through the concept of adaptive space.

ransform Chaos into Opportunity: Master the Art of Evolutionary Leadership In a business world defined by disruption, yesterday's leadership playbook no longer works. What if you could turn uncertainty into your greatest competitive advantage? "Evolutionary Leadership Applied" offers a groundbreaking framework that transforms how you navigate complexity and change. Drawing from nature's most successful adaptation strategies, this practical guide equips you with actionable tools to thrive amid turbulence, not just survive it. As a leader facing relentless pressure to deliver results while ...

In a world of constant change and unprecedented challenges, leadership as we know it is being redefined. "Leadership Reimagined" offers a fresh, powerful approach to leading in the 21st century, seamlessly weaving together time-honored leadership principles with cutting-edge insights on emotional intelligence and adaptability. This transformative book presents a comprehensive 7-step framework that will revolutionize how you lead. It isn't just another leadership guide—it's a roadmap to becoming the kind of leader who not only drives results but also inspires deep trust, fosters innovation...