Provocation as Leadership: A Roadmap for Adaptation and Change

ISBN-13: 9781032342535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str.

Michael Johnstone

Opis

To create deep change you have to disturb people, or at least risk doing so. Shaking people out of their comfort zones generates the possibility of change and brings out hidden resources that people need to navigate unfamiliar waters. This book is the first comprehensive roadmap of provocation as the essential change leadership tool.

Spis treści

Introduction   PART 1: What is provocation and why is it necessary?  1. What is provocation?  PART 2: Provocative capabilities and skills  2. Observation, interpretation, and questioning - foundation skills for provocation  3. Provocative capabilities  4. Developing a provocative mindset  PART 3: Types of provocation  5. Paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity as provocation  6. Stories as provocation  7. Unique forms of provocation  PART 4: Application - practicing provocation  8. Paradigm change - breaking with tradition in agriculture  9. Survival - Kibbutz Yizrael and the evolution of an ideology  10. Smashing it to bits - risky tactics to change first nations’ education  11. Living with contradictions - M&T Bank and the transformation battle  12. Confounding expectations - how a public sector business behaved like a start-up  13. Orchestrating conflict: Large-scale reform  14. Putting your head above the parapet - taking risks and speaking out  15. Testing your values - life transitions as personal provocation  PART 5: Risks and lessons of provocation  16. Risks of provocation  17. Cultivating provocation - helping people live with disturbance  18. Lessons in the use of provocation  19. Epilogue - the albatross and the conductor

O autorze

Maxime Fern, M.Ed. and Michael Johnstone, PhD., partners in life and work, trained in Psychology, Systems Family Therapy and Human Geography, developed the art of provocation as therapists and then leadership consultants. Stepping into places where others may be too polite to go, they refined provocation at Harvard’s Kennedy School as a framework to help others understand and succeed when change and adaptation is the only option. Both authors live in Australia and Italy.