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No Point B
Our future depends on changing the way we change.
But because technology has forever altered our relationship with what’s coming next, the tomorrow we envisioned is too often totally different by the time it arrives—there is no linear path from where we are to where we are going. How can leaders manage disruption when disruption never stops coming?
No Point B is a paradigm-shifting look at transforming change into something we do, not for some vague brighter future, but as a practice for making a better world right now.
Drawing upon his vast experience in business leadership and social activism, author Caleb Gardner shows how the simple idea of embracing constant change as a core competency for living in a complex world could revolutionize our relationship with modernity and transform our approach to effective leadership.
Through stories from his career advising everyone from Fortune 100 CEOs to politicians and political leaders, and advice from experts in sociology, psychology, and management, No Point B proposes nine principles for mobilizing the next generation of effective change leaders, including:
• focusing on effective communications to navigate our reality-distorting media,
• building adaptive capability and tackling cross-disciplinary problems, and
• never resting on our assumptions about how to best navigate the world.
The only way we’ll make significant progress on building a better world is by recognizing better is a process of constant adaptation, not an end point.
No Point B is the ultimate playbook for a new generation of leaders striving to dig in and give their companies and communities a better future, today.
But because technology has forever altered our relationship with what’s coming next, the tomorrow we envisioned is too often totally different by the time it arrives—there is no linear path from where we are to where we are going. How can leaders manage disruption when disruption never stops coming?
No Point B is a paradigm-shifting look at transforming change into something we do, not for some vague brighter future, but as a practice for making a better world right now.
Drawing upon his vast experience in business leadership and social activism, author Caleb Gardner shows how the simple idea of embracing constant change as a core competency for living in a complex world could revolutionize our relationship with modernity and transform our approach to effective leadership.
Through stories from his career advising everyone from Fortune 100 CEOs to politicians and political leaders, and advice from experts in sociology, psychology, and management, No Point B proposes nine principles for mobilizing the next generation of effective change leaders, including:
• focusing on effective communications to navigate our reality-distorting media,
• building adaptive capability and tackling cross-disciplinary problems, and
• never resting on our assumptions about how to best navigate the world.
The only way we’ll make significant progress on building a better world is by recognizing better is a process of constant adaptation, not an end point.
No Point B is the ultimate playbook for a new generation of leaders striving to dig in and give their companies and communities a better future, today.
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 9, 2022
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About the author
Caleb Gardner
4 books33 followersCaleb Gardner is an insatiably curious innovation strategist and change management expert with unique experience that includes startups, global nonprofits, Fortune 100 clients, and presidents of the United States. For more than three years, he was the lead digital strategist for OFA, Barack Obama’s political advocacy group. Caleb led one of the largest digital programs in existence. But his decades of experience in digital leadership, entrepreneurship, and social impact don’t just include work in government and politics: He’s developed operational frameworks for a variety of organizations in the public and private sectors, including at prestigious professional service firms like Bain & Company and Edelman. Now as the cofounder and managing partner of 18 Coffees, an innovation consulting firm, Caleb helps businesses with a mission to change the world get a foothold in the future, using his professional experience to solve impossible problems and bring new ideas to life. Caleb has also written columns and is frequently asked for quotes for publications like NBC News, WIRED magazine, BBC Radio 4, and Entrepreneur magazine, among others.
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October 31, 2024
Just bunch of fancy words put together and conclusion that social media is harder to control.
August 21, 2024
Stopped reading after "innovation in China" and other delusional nonsense about "absent father" :-D
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