The Growth Imperative
The Growth Imperative
Reimagining The Future of Work
Business as usual isn't working. It's giving us massive disengagement. It's time to completely reimagine the future of work.
In their 2016 study of 7,000 companies across over 130 countries, Deloitte discovered that the number one issue is redesigning the future of work. 92% of companies believe the way they work is not optimized for growth and engagement and 96% are committed to change.
The future of work belongs to the nimble. With growth as their imperative, nimble organizations outperform slow organizations in responsiveness and agility.
Organizations become nimble because they grow nimble teams. In "The Growth Imperative" 22-time author Jack Ricchiuto outlines how slow teams can become nimble. Slow teams are cultures of permission. Nimble teams are cultures of growth.
Drawing from his four decades of work with teams across industries and continents, Jack argues that this transformation takes nothing less than turning how we work on its head. Moving to nimble is the transition from business as usual to business as unusual.
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The Growth Imperative: Reimagining the future of work
2018 DesigningLife Books, Paperback, 176 pages
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Content
Business as unusual
13 The future of work
14 'Tis a gift to be nimble
16 The growth imperative
19 Through a dark lens, slowly
21 The beauty of good
23 Work as craft
24 It's all about the numbers, except when it isn't
25 Team detox
27 Bringing out each other's goodness
Growing together
31 The new currency of growing together
33 Shared kindness
37 Being in sync
39 The commons
41 MacroSync
42 The ambiguity-uncertainty distinction
44 The 84th problem
46 Unflat: The magic of focus
48 Sense making, crazy making
50 Are nimble people better?
51 Growth is a movement, not a mandate
Realizing our potential
55 Reality (yes Alice, there still is one)
57 Growing questions
59 Knowing our potential
61 The power of readiness
63 Self-improvement and growth
65 The learning conversation
67 The confusion factor
69 Inspiring clarity
71 Speaking of weaknesses
73 The reality of self-assessment
75 The F word
77 The magic of receptivity
78 Abandoning performance reviews: It's time
79 And while we're at it, let's rethink roles
82 Should we expect people to do their jobs?
83 Flawless failure
85 Good and goals
89 Progress is everything
91 Progress (in)tolerance
93 The primacy of habits
95 Building new habits
97 How habits become persistent
98 What to do with old habits
99 Mindless systems and processes
100 Taking charge of our habit landscape
Engagement
107 Why Google and Apple outperform
108 The engagement difference
109 The culture question
111 How long does it take people to grow together?
112 The power of momentum
115 What's the rush?
116 Smarter together
117 What motivates us
119 Beautiful conversations
122 Conversation habits
124 The craft of engaging conversations
127 New conversations
128 Shared decisions, made simple
130 Push and pull cultures
132 Question based status conversations
133 Who's responsible for a team's growth?
135 Rethinking power
137 How leaders can grow and how we can help
The future of growth
141 The unreasonable power of the future
142 The Agile Canvas conversations
145 Mindful trending
147 Recovering our creative potential
148 The magic of constraints
150 The vitality and value of unrealistic ideas
151 Growing ideas
157 Design HUBS
161 Who can improve an industry?
162 Ambivalence about innovation
163 The change-growth distinction
164 The sociology of spreading change for good
166 People want to be nimble
167 Nimble transitions
170 Growing our way into the future