Leading in a Non-Linear World: Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future

by Jean Gomes

Unlock the full potential of your organization in a rapidly transforming world with this explosive resource

Leading in a Non-Linear World: Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future, leads readers through a groundbreaking set of science-based strategies to help them face rising demand, uncertainty and change posed by disruptive technologies and seismic shifts in globalisation. The book shows how our mindset, more than our knowledge and expertise, has the potential to be our greatest asset in facing the future. Jean Gomes reviews the latest brain research revealing that our mindset is the interplay of feeling, thinking, and seeing, and how we can build it to significantly increase our wellbeing and performance.

For over 30 years Jean Gomes has worked with many of the world’s most successful leaders in the corporate and sporting world, helping them to harness the emerging science of mindset. His clients include Warner Music, Nike, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, eBay, Coca-Cola, UK Sport, Condé Nast, Microsoft, Manchester City Football Club and BMW. He is co-author of the New York Times best seller; The Way We're Working Isn't Working and the founder and CEO of the research-based consultancy, Outside.

Leading in a Non-Linear World provides readers with a new science-based definition of mindset and the tools to:

•Build and strengthen their mindset
•Increase their sustainability and wellbeing
•Understand and build the ultimate strategic mindset
•Learn how to create the mindset that's foundational to the success of the world's fastest growing companies
•How to build an open mindset that allows leaders to create flexible, adaptive cultures capable of naturally responding to change
•Perfect for CEOs, Chief Innovation Officers, business leaders, digital officers, and anyone in a managerial or supervisory role, Leading in a Non-Linear World shows leaders how to shift their thinking and realize explosive growth in a world that demands nothing less.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

304 pages, Hardcover

Published November 30, 2022

Reviews

[Warren · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much food for thought, I will definitely need to re-read this book again soon.

[Dimitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)

This book about the ‘future now’ mindset, is a great read that works introduces the interplay off Think, See, Feel

How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
1. Humans think in simple stories build with images and emotions. A simple story has a start - middle - end.
2. We rather win then to be correct.
3. Blow up assumptions with AND thinking not OR
○ Judga questions - Knowledge - Answers - Exploitation
○ Learning questions - Ignorrance - Questions - Exploration
4. Purpose replaces vision and mission


Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
1. Our brain is a prediction-making machine, unremittingly making a series of ‘top-down’ guesses, based on past experience, which are met with ‘bottom-up’ sensory information that either confirms or counters those predictions.
2. Many of today's corporations were built on the belief that one idea could be perfected, scaled, and extended over the course of many decades, and consequently provide a predictable career for its leaders. Growth came from incremental improvements to that idea, the refinement of the underpinning business model, and finding new adjacent market opportunities. The command and control, machine-like hierarchy matched the needs of that assumption.
3. Few organisations retain the founding entrepreneurs and culture of their start-up phase. They are replaced with system builders and process managers, and the organisation progressively becomes more introverted and less sensitive to its environment, becoming engrossed in efficiency and financialisation. It then relies increasingly upon proxies for what's happening in its market rather than through direct experience with customers, new entrants, and even employees.

[Francesca Pili · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very inspiring book, simply written and very effective… I’ve had the pleasure to work with Jean Gomes in my Company and I can witness that the concepts he teaches do work and will help you unleashing your hidden potential.
Stefano M.

[C R · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of interesting thoughts packed into a relatively short read makes this fascinating at times, but rather dense, at turns. I found the first half — which addresses individual mindset and self awareness — more interesting than the back half, which applies this more broadly to business and business culture. I wish there was a little more anecdote to make this stickier and more practical.

[Sara Deschamps · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. Gomes included so much food for thought on strengthening and building mindsets within your professional career, but also how the applicability of mindset building is so impactful in all facets of your life. A must-read for anyone!