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Index
Cover
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
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Additional Resources
Books
Videos
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
End User License Agreement
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