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The Adaptation Advantage

by Heather E. McGowan, Chris Shipley, Thomas L. Friedman

April 2020

Intermediate to advanced

272 pages

7h 21m

English

Wiley

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Breaking with Identity to Seize the Adaptation AdvantageSo What's Changing?How Did We Get Here?How Big Is the Challenge?The Adaptability GapAmid Rapid Change, Keep Calm and Adapt OnSo What's in This Book?Who Is This Book For?Notes
Wait a SecondTechnological Climate ChangeEnvironmental Climate ChangeClimate Change of the MarketThe Force of Three Amplifying and Interlocking Climate ChangesNotes
Shifting Ground Beneath Our FeetFrom Linear and Local to Exponential and GlobalRaceReligionAgeFamilyGender IdentityTruth and TrustConsent and Power ShiftsDeath of Distance Reshapes Human RelationshipsSo, Who Are You? Occupational Identity and ExpertiseNotes
We've Already Begun to Outsource Our MemoryPeople Aren't HorsesAtomization, Automation, and AugmentationAtomization in ActionAutomation in ActionAugmentation in ActionPutting Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation TogetherNotes
The Power of PauseFrom Scalable Efficiency to Scalable LearningFrom Stocks to Flows of KnowledgeFrom Learning to Work to Working to Learn ContinuouslyIdentifying Patterns to Build BridgesNotes

The Questions That Limit Our IdentityThe Identity TrapHow Identity Is FormedNarratives Can Trap Us in the Past and Limit Our FutureGender, Narratives, and IdentityThe Confidence GapIdentity Is Never DoneAn Occupational Identity Crisis Isn't Limited to Job LossNotes
What Does the Parable of the Three Stonecutters Have to Do with You?The Day 1 Mindset: You Are a Prototype; Start with WhyHow Job Loss Can Be a GainModeling Vulnerability: We Share Our Hard LessonsWhat Do You Do Now?Notes
Learn Fast—What Does That Even Mean?What Do We Mean by Learning? First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Learning OrganizationsThe S-Curve of Learning: Explore, Experiment, Execute, ExpandThe Curse of Expertise: The Challenge of UnlearningThe Iceberg: The Substance Beneath the SurfaceIdentity: The Core of the Adaptive MindThe Agile Learning MindsetThe Enablers: Uniquely Human SkillsWhy We Need the Agile Mindset: The Broken Education-to-Work PipelineABL: Always Be LearningNotes
Play Is the Way ForwardThe Uniqueness of the Human Drive to Learn and CreateThe Predictive Markets Declare Future Skills Favor HumansUnderstanding Uniquely Human SkillsChasing STEM at Our PerilThe Skills Battleground: Humans Need ApplyThe Return on Being HumanReturn on Humans for All Jobs: The Special Power of EmpathyEvolving Beyond Shareholder Value: The Purpose of a CompanyTo Maximize Human Potential, Place the Human in the CenterNotes
You Are at the WheelLeadership, Power, Cookies, and ChickensWhat Makes a Modern Leader?Transformational LeadershipTransformational Leadership and Change Management ModelsLeading with Fear: The Burning PlatformPutting It All TogetherNotes
What Should We Measure?The Power of the Culture and Capacity FocusCulture at the CoreCapacity: Culture's PartnerCapability and Context: The Scissors MetaphorIn Accelerated Change, Focus on the Inputs Rather Than the OutputsBecoming a Learning CompanyNotes
No More Little BoxesThe Job Description Is HistoryJob Descriptions Become TrapsFire Your Job DescriptionHire for Cultural AlignmentHire Adults and Let Them Do Their JobsTurn the Right People into Great TeamsEmbrace Cognitive DiversityGet Comfortable with FailureLive in a State of Continuous LearningManage a Multigenerational WorkforceHow Do We Get from Here to There?The New Leadership ImperativeNotes
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Index

Page numbers followed by f refer to figures.

A

AARP (American Association for Real Possibilities), 23
AARP (American Association for Retired Persons), 23
ABC (American Broadcasting Company), 179
ABC of Gender Inequality in Education (OECD), 174
Abilities: Their Structure, Growth and Action (Cattell), 109
Academic achievement, confidence and, 174–75
Academic fields, occupational identity in, 179
Accenture, 159
Accidental culture, 178, 183
Achievement gap, 176, 177
Achievement status, 171
Action (bridging) networks, 210–212, 210f
Adaptability:
- in agile learning mindset, 105f, 107
- demand for, 111
- flexibility vs., xxvii, 192
- as future work skill, 122, 123
- hiring for, 201, 205
- importance of, 1, 132
- and rapid change, xxvi–xxvii
Adaptability gap, xxv–xxvi
Adaptability quotient (AQ), xxiv
Adaptation, xiii–xiv. See also Iceberg Model
- age and, 7, 7f
- continuous, 8, 168
- identity and, xix–xx, 173
- learning in, 147–48
- as ongoing process, 1, 44
- technological change and, 7, 8, 8f, 44
- velocity of change and, 13–14, 14f
AdaptationAdvantage.com, 223, 225
Adaptive identity, 103, 103f
Adaptive organizations, 98. See also Learning organizations
Adaptive teams, 195–220
building, 209–212
- cognitive diversity on, 212–214
- continuous learning by, 215–216
- failure for, 214–215
- future for, 217, 218
- and hiring for cultural fit, 205–208
- and hiring for open-mindedness, 208
- job descriptions and, 197–205
- leadership of, 218–219
- with multigenerational workforce, 216–217
- organizational charts and, ...