Getting Out Of Control
eBook - ePub

Getting Out Of Control

Emergent Leadership in a Complex World

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eBook - ePub

Getting Out Of Control

Emergent Leadership in a Complex World

About this book

In an age of increasing complexity, our hope as leaders lies not in gaining control, but in relying on emergent order.

Most leadership books promise to help you get control of your business, your career, and your life. In Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World, Neil Chilson flips this formula on its head.

Emergent order-order with no single individual or entity in control-surrounds us. From ant colonies to our brains, cities, and economies, emergent order sustains powerful and complex systems that no one designed and no one controls. Awash in this complexity, we have less control than we imagine or wish. Chilson explains how this emergent order confounds managers who grasp for control but holds great promise for leaders willing to adopt an emergent mindset.

Getting Out of Control explains why effective le aders seek to influence rather than to control. Chilson offers real-world examples of successful and failed leadership from Washington, D.C.'s halls to Silicon Valley's workstations. He distills six principles of the emergent mindset to help leaders in public, corporate, or priva te life maximize their influence and avoid the pointless pursuit of control in this complex, out-of-control world.

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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781637302873
Edition
1
Subtopic
Leadership

Table of contents

  1. FRONTMATTER
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1. The World Is Out of Control
  4. Chapter 2. Our Brains, Prosperity, and Emergent Order
  5. Chapter 3. What is Emergent Order?
  6. Chapter 4. How Emergent Order Emerged
  7. Chapter 5. Leadership Without Control
  8. Chapter 6. Your Role in Emergent Systems
  9. Chapter 7. Emergent Leadership in Public Policy
  10. Chapter 8. Case Studies
  11. Chapter 9. Your Actions Still Matter: They Can Change You
  12. Chapter 10. Your Actions Still Matter: They Can Change the World
  13. Chapter 11. You Need Your Communities and Your Communities Need You
  14. Chapter 12. Six Principles of the Emergent Mindset
  15. Conclusion
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Bibliography