The Adaptation Advantage : Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work.
McGowan, Heather E.
The Adaptation Advantage : Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (277 pages)
Intro -- Praise for The Adaptation Advantage -- Foreword: From Flat to Fast to Smart to Deep -- Introduction -- Breaking with Identity to Seize the Adaptation Advantage -- So What's Changing? -- How Did We Get Here? -- How Big Is the Challenge? -- The Adaptability Gap -- Amid Rapid Change, Keep Calm and Adapt On -- So What's in This Book? -- Who Is This Book For? -- Notes -- Part I Adapting at the Speed of Change -- 1 The World Is Fast: Technology Is Changing Everything and Planting Opportunity Everywhere -- Wait a Second -- Technological Climate Change -- Environmental Climate Change -- Climate Change of the Market -- The Force of Three Amplifying and Interlocking Climate Changes -- Notes -- 2 The Only Things Moving Faster Than Technology Are Cultural and Social Norms -- Shifting Ground Beneath Our Feet -- From Linear and Local to Exponential and Global -- Race -- Religion -- Age -- Family -- Gender Identity -- Truth and Trust -- Consent and Power Shifts -- Death of Distance Reshapes Human Relationships -- So, Who Are You? Occupational Identity and Expertise -- Notes -- 3 You're Already Adapting and Not Even Noticing -- We've Already Begun to Outsource Our Memory -- People Aren't Horses -- Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation -- Atomization in Action -- Automation in Action -- Augmentation in Action -- Putting Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation Together -- Notes -- 4 Getting Comfortable with Adaptation: The Slowest Rate of Change Is Happening Now -- The Power of Pause -- From Scalable Efficiency to Scalable Learning -- From Stocks to Flows of Knowledge -- From Learning to Work to Working to Learn Continuously -- Identifying Patterns to Build Bridges -- Notes -- Part II Letting Go and Learning Fast to Thrive -- 5 What Do You Do for a Living? The Question That Traps Us in the Past -- The Questions That Limit Our Identity. The Identity Trap -- How Identity Is Formed -- Narratives Can Trap Us in the Past and Limit Our Future -- Gender, Narratives, and Identity -- The Confidence Gap -- Identity Is Never Done -- An Occupational Identity Crisis Isn't Limited to Job Loss -- Notes -- 6 Finding the Courage to Let Go of Occupational Identity -- What Does the Parable of the Three Stonecutters Have to Do with You? -- The Day 1 Mindset: You Are a Prototype -- Start with Why -- How Job Loss Can Be a Gain -- Modeling Vulnerability: We Share Our Hard Lessons -- What Do You Do Now? -- Notes -- 7 Learning Fast: Why an Agile Learning Mindset Is Essential -- Learn Fast-What Does That Even Mean? -- What Do We Mean by Learning? First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Learning Organizations -- The S-Curve of Learning: Explore, Experiment, Execute, Expand -- The Curse of Expertise: The Challenge of Unlearning -- The Iceberg: The Substance Beneath the Surface -- Identity: The Core of the Adaptive Mind -- The Agile Learning Mindset -- The Enablers: Uniquely Human Skills -- Why We Need the Agile Mindset: The Broken Education-to-Work Pipeline -- ABL: Always Be Learning -- Notes -- 8 Rise of the Humans: Developing Your Creativity, Empathy, and Other Uniquely Human Capabilities -- Play Is the Way Forward -- The Uniqueness of the Human Drive to Learn and Create -- The Predictive Markets Declare Future Skills Favor Humans -- Understanding Uniquely Human Skills -- Chasing STEM at Our Peril -- The Skills Battleground: Humans Need Apply -- The Return on Being Human -- Return on Humans for All Jobs: The Special Power of Empathy -- Evolving Beyond Shareholder Value: The Purpose of a Company -- To Maximize Human Potential, Place the Human in the Center -- Notes -- Part III Leading People and Organizations in the Evolution of Work. 9 Leading in Continuous Change: Modeling Vulnerability, Learning from Failure, and Providing the Psychological Safety that Builds Trusting Teams -- You Are at the Wheel -- Leadership, Power, Cookies, and Chickens -- What Makes a Modern Leader? -- Transformational Leadership -- Transformational Leadership and Change Management Models -- Leading with Fear: The Burning Platform -- Putting It All Together -- Notes -- 10 The Adaptive Organization: Creating the Capacity to Change at the Speed of Technology, Market, and Social Evolution -- What Should We Measure? -- The Power of the Culture and Capacity Focus -- Culture at the Core -- Capacity: Culture's Partner -- Capability and Context: The Scissors Metaphor -- In Accelerated Change, Focus on the Inputs Rather Than the Outputs -- Becoming a Learning Company -- Notes -- 11 Capability Is King: Looking Beyond the Resume to Design Your Adaptive Team -- No More Little Boxes -- The Job Description Is History -- Job Descriptions Become Traps -- Fire Your Job Description -- Hire for Cultural Alignment -- Hire Adults and Let Them Do Their Jobs -- Turn the Right People into Great Teams -- Embrace Cognitive Diversity -- Get Comfortable with Failure -- Live in a State of Continuous Learning -- Manage a Multigenerational Workforce -- How Do We Get from Here to There? -- The New Leadership Imperative -- Notes -- 12 Getting Ready to Seize Your Adaptation Advantage -- Note -- Additional Resources -- Books -- Videos -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
9781119653172
Labor supply-Effect of technological innovations on.
Electronic books.
HD6331 .M346 2020
The Adaptation Advantage : Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (277 pages)
Intro -- Praise for The Adaptation Advantage -- Foreword: From Flat to Fast to Smart to Deep -- Introduction -- Breaking with Identity to Seize the Adaptation Advantage -- So What's Changing? -- How Did We Get Here? -- How Big Is the Challenge? -- The Adaptability Gap -- Amid Rapid Change, Keep Calm and Adapt On -- So What's in This Book? -- Who Is This Book For? -- Notes -- Part I Adapting at the Speed of Change -- 1 The World Is Fast: Technology Is Changing Everything and Planting Opportunity Everywhere -- Wait a Second -- Technological Climate Change -- Environmental Climate Change -- Climate Change of the Market -- The Force of Three Amplifying and Interlocking Climate Changes -- Notes -- 2 The Only Things Moving Faster Than Technology Are Cultural and Social Norms -- Shifting Ground Beneath Our Feet -- From Linear and Local to Exponential and Global -- Race -- Religion -- Age -- Family -- Gender Identity -- Truth and Trust -- Consent and Power Shifts -- Death of Distance Reshapes Human Relationships -- So, Who Are You? Occupational Identity and Expertise -- Notes -- 3 You're Already Adapting and Not Even Noticing -- We've Already Begun to Outsource Our Memory -- People Aren't Horses -- Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation -- Atomization in Action -- Automation in Action -- Augmentation in Action -- Putting Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation Together -- Notes -- 4 Getting Comfortable with Adaptation: The Slowest Rate of Change Is Happening Now -- The Power of Pause -- From Scalable Efficiency to Scalable Learning -- From Stocks to Flows of Knowledge -- From Learning to Work to Working to Learn Continuously -- Identifying Patterns to Build Bridges -- Notes -- Part II Letting Go and Learning Fast to Thrive -- 5 What Do You Do for a Living? The Question That Traps Us in the Past -- The Questions That Limit Our Identity. The Identity Trap -- How Identity Is Formed -- Narratives Can Trap Us in the Past and Limit Our Future -- Gender, Narratives, and Identity -- The Confidence Gap -- Identity Is Never Done -- An Occupational Identity Crisis Isn't Limited to Job Loss -- Notes -- 6 Finding the Courage to Let Go of Occupational Identity -- What Does the Parable of the Three Stonecutters Have to Do with You? -- The Day 1 Mindset: You Are a Prototype -- Start with Why -- How Job Loss Can Be a Gain -- Modeling Vulnerability: We Share Our Hard Lessons -- What Do You Do Now? -- Notes -- 7 Learning Fast: Why an Agile Learning Mindset Is Essential -- Learn Fast-What Does That Even Mean? -- What Do We Mean by Learning? First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Learning Organizations -- The S-Curve of Learning: Explore, Experiment, Execute, Expand -- The Curse of Expertise: The Challenge of Unlearning -- The Iceberg: The Substance Beneath the Surface -- Identity: The Core of the Adaptive Mind -- The Agile Learning Mindset -- The Enablers: Uniquely Human Skills -- Why We Need the Agile Mindset: The Broken Education-to-Work Pipeline -- ABL: Always Be Learning -- Notes -- 8 Rise of the Humans: Developing Your Creativity, Empathy, and Other Uniquely Human Capabilities -- Play Is the Way Forward -- The Uniqueness of the Human Drive to Learn and Create -- The Predictive Markets Declare Future Skills Favor Humans -- Understanding Uniquely Human Skills -- Chasing STEM at Our Peril -- The Skills Battleground: Humans Need Apply -- The Return on Being Human -- Return on Humans for All Jobs: The Special Power of Empathy -- Evolving Beyond Shareholder Value: The Purpose of a Company -- To Maximize Human Potential, Place the Human in the Center -- Notes -- Part III Leading People and Organizations in the Evolution of Work. 9 Leading in Continuous Change: Modeling Vulnerability, Learning from Failure, and Providing the Psychological Safety that Builds Trusting Teams -- You Are at the Wheel -- Leadership, Power, Cookies, and Chickens -- What Makes a Modern Leader? -- Transformational Leadership -- Transformational Leadership and Change Management Models -- Leading with Fear: The Burning Platform -- Putting It All Together -- Notes -- 10 The Adaptive Organization: Creating the Capacity to Change at the Speed of Technology, Market, and Social Evolution -- What Should We Measure? -- The Power of the Culture and Capacity Focus -- Culture at the Core -- Capacity: Culture's Partner -- Capability and Context: The Scissors Metaphor -- In Accelerated Change, Focus on the Inputs Rather Than the Outputs -- Becoming a Learning Company -- Notes -- 11 Capability Is King: Looking Beyond the Resume to Design Your Adaptive Team -- No More Little Boxes -- The Job Description Is History -- Job Descriptions Become Traps -- Fire Your Job Description -- Hire for Cultural Alignment -- Hire Adults and Let Them Do Their Jobs -- Turn the Right People into Great Teams -- Embrace Cognitive Diversity -- Get Comfortable with Failure -- Live in a State of Continuous Learning -- Manage a Multigenerational Workforce -- How Do We Get from Here to There? -- The New Leadership Imperative -- Notes -- 12 Getting Ready to Seize Your Adaptation Advantage -- Note -- Additional Resources -- Books -- Videos -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
9781119653172
Labor supply-Effect of technological innovations on.
Electronic books.
HD6331 .M346 2020