The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown

by Terence Mauri

Overview

Discover why not taking a risk is the biggest risk of all

In The Upside of Disruption: The Path To Leading and Thriving in the Unknown, renowned disruption thinker and best-selling author Terence Mauri delivers a compelling set of mindset shifts for today's unique leadership challenges. In the book, you'll find the future-ready insights and tools you need to lead for today and prepare your organization for tomorrow.

The author explains why so many of us continually overestimate the risks of bold decisions while underestimating the downsides of standing still for too long in an increasingly complex and volatile world. You'll learn about the upside of disruption and how to turn it into a tailwind for laser-like focus and strategic courage. You'll also find:

• Discussions of why good leaders learn but great leaders unlearn
• The key to unlocking cultures of courage over conformity
• Actionable strategies to sharpen the future readiness muscle and find the upside in disruption

A singularly engaging new take on leading the future that uniquely favors the bold, The Upside of Disruption will earn a place in the libraries of managers, executives, board members, entrepreneurs, and founders looking for a new and resilient path forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781394192601
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/04/2024
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	506,915
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

TERENCE MAURI is the founder of the management think tank Hack Future Lab and a world-leading expert on leadership, AI, and disruption. He has been described as an ‘influential and outspoken thinker on the future of leadership’ by Thinkers50, the global ranking authority of top management thinkers. He is an adjunct professor at IE Business School and a mentor at MIT.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Wake- up Call from the Future 1

Leadership on the Ballot 5

Future- ready Mindsets 7

Questions Are the Answer 14

Don’t Mention the ‘D’ Word 16

Disruption Is the Norm; the Upside Is a Choice 17

The Upside Is the Answer 18

The Nutritional Value of Leadership 21

Chapter 2 Data: Lead with AI 31

Leadership Disrupted 35

Making the Impossible Possible 36

Amazonification Principles 38

The Most Significant Risk Is Not AI 39

Underhyped Versus Overhyped 40

A Brief History of AI 42

The AI-Intelligence Illusion 47

Attention Is the New Oil 50

Matching AI with Leadership and Humanity 54

The Anything Workforce 55

Be a Future-maker 60

Takeaways 61

Chapter 3 Agility: Great Leaders Unlearn 65

Learning for Today While Unlearning for Tomorrow 68

Mind the Agility Gap 71

Slow, Siloed, and Complicated 74

Measure My Bureaucratic BS (Score Yourself on a Scale of 1–5) 5 = “Strongly Agree” 75

Failure to Reimagine Failure 79

A Brief History of Failure 81

From Action, I Learn (FAIL) 84

A Story of Unlearning a Toxic Culture 87

Unlearning Is the Answer 92

Unlearning Equals Agility and Humility 95

Takeaways 96

Chapter 4 Risk: The Courage Advantage 101

The Courage Dividend 108

Courage Calling 108

Willful Contrarianism 115

The Mindset Advantage 120

The Beyonders 122

Wanted – Leaders of Courage 127

Takeaways 127

Chapter 5 Evolution: In Trust, We Grow 133

Truth Decay in Organizations 136

Trust on the Ballot 136

Trust in Humans 137

Trust Decay 139

The Trust Mindset 142

Believing 146

Belonging 146

Braving 147

Becoming 148

Who We Are Is What We Do 148

The Future of Trust 157

Trust Is The Ultimate Human Currency 164

Takeaways 165

Chapter 6 Beyond Is Where We Begin 169

First, When Disruption Is the Norm, Rethinking Is the Answer 171

Second, Technology Changes Fast. Humans Don’t 173

Third, In the Human-Technology Nexus, Courage Skills Are the New Leadership 175

Beware of the Rubber Band Effect 177

The Dogs That Don’t Bark 179

Frontier Leadership 180

Chapter 7 The Dare Leadership Test 187

Data 189

Agility 190

Risk 190

Evolution 190

Notes 191

Acknowledgments 209

About the Author 211

Index 213