Leaders are no strangers to challenges; in recent years, businesses have experienced unprecedented layoffs, dismal sales, dwindling retirement accounts, and the bankruptcy of once-heralded institutions. While these uncertain times are difficult, they also provide the opportunity for great leadership
Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
✍ Scribed by Peggy Holman
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 265
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
What's Possible Now? Change is everywhere these days—at times it seems like barely controlled chaos. Yet within this turmoil are the seeds of a higher order. When a new system arises from the ashes of the old, science calls the process “emergence.” By engaging it, you can help yourself and your organization or community to successfully face disruption and emerge stronger than ever.In this profound, award winning (2011 Nautilus Gold medal winner) book, Peggy Holman offers principles, practices, and real-world stories to help you work with compassion, creativity, and wisdom through the entire arc of change—from disruption to coherence. You’ll learn what to notice, what to explore, what to try, and what mindset opens new possibilities.This work can be challenging but also tremendously rewarding. It enables new and unlikely partnerships and develops breakthrough projects. You become part of a process that transforms the culture itself.“Very useful in giving structure and form to ways of dealing with the unpredictable and volatile way the world comes at us. A powerful antidote to the change management illusion that the future can be driven, engineered, managed, and drilled.” —Peter Block, author of Community“A dance manual for how to move gracefully with the disruption, uncertainty, and mystery that are part of life’s rhythms, how to welcome interruption and discontinuity as opportunities for creativity, community, and greater capacity.” —Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science“Provides practical advice for orchestrating conflict and moving through discomfort to reach a new coherence." —Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky, cofounders of Cambridge Leadership Associates and coauthors of Leadership on the Line and The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
✦ Table of Contents
CONTENTS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: From Chaos to Coherence......Page 22
PART I. The Nature of Emergence......Page 34
1. What Is Emergence?......Page 38
2. What’s the Catch?......Page 49
PART II. Practices for Engaging Emergence......Page 64
3. Step Up: Take Responsibility For What You Love......Page 68
4. Prepare: Foster an Attitude for Engaging......Page 79
5. Host: Cultivate Conditions for Engaging......Page 89
6. Step In: Practice Engaging......Page 100
7. Iterate: Do It Again . . . and Again......Page 121
PART III. Principles for Engaging Emergence......Page 134
8. Welcome Disturbance......Page 138
9. Pioneer!......Page 143
10. Encourage Random Encounters......Page 149
11. Seek Meaning......Page 156
12. Simplify......Page 164
PART IV. Three Questions for Engaging Emergence......Page 172
13. How Do We Disrupt Coherence Compassionately?......Page 176
14. How Do We Engage Disruptions Creatively?......Page 185
15. How Do We Renew Coherence Wisely?......Page 192
IN CLOSING: What’s Possible Now?......Page 202
SUMMARY OF KEY IDEAS......Page 212
ABOUT EMERGENT CHANGE PROCESSES......Page 222
NOTES......Page 234
GLOSSARY......Page 240
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 244
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 248
C......Page 251
E......Page 253
H......Page 254
K......Page 255
N......Page 256
P......Page 257
R......Page 258
T......Page 259
Z......Page 260
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 261
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