"The New Nimble will provide readers with clear, tangible, actionable, steps and approaches to adopting a more flexible, creative, and ultimately manageable workstyle. The world has spent the last 2 years figuring out how to work and live differently. Business leaders were used to making decisions based on the economy, their industry trends, and hiring issues, among other standard business factors. They suddenly had to factor in daily announcements from the CDC, restrictions from their state health departments, pushback from staff, clients, and the public based on the political whims of the moment, and huge numbers of stakeholders who were sick and needed support. We all learned quickly that the rules we had to follow on Monday had all changed by Tuesday. We had to become nimbler than had ever been required of us in the past. Through interviews with senior leaders across a broad swath of industries and disciplines, Sullivan will uncover trends and key aspects of behavior that allowed those individuals toguide their teams and organizations through the Covid crisis. He will share how those organizations institutionalized lessons learned so that they can apply those new approaches to the next crisis"--
Transform your organization into an adaptable and flexible innovator
In The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change, accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise. Through interviews with senior leaders from a variety of industries and disciplines, the author shows you the trends and behaviors that allowed successful companies to navigate the changing realities and complexities that have defined recent years, including the COVID-19 crisis, the increasing awareness of racial injustice in society, and the January 6th insurrection.
The New Nimble demonstrates how organizations can internalize and institutionalize lessons from recent paradigm shifts in thinking and learn how to apply those lessons to their everyday operations and to prepare for the next major challenge. Youll discover:
- How crucial it is to clearly articulate your mission, values, and parameters as an organization
- How to gather the types of data and insights that will allow you to make decisions quickly when the next change takes us all by surprise
- How building trust within your organization and with your external stakeholders gives you the confidence to take action in times of crisis
The questions at the end of each chapter become your playbook for debriefing how your organization handled the myriad shifting realities of the last few years. That ongoing discussion with your team will prepare you to be more nimble as the next change appears.
As managers, executives, founders, directors, and entrepreneurs, we will all face enormous decisions in the coming years regarding environmental challenges, shifts in the supply chain and the global economy, and the runaway freight train that is AI. As those and other issues come fast and furious, The New Nimble is the hands-on leadership guide that we'll all need as we do our best to manage our way through chaotic and volatile environments.
