The Leadership Book, 2nd Edition

Part four

Leading change

It is perhaps all too easy to observe that change has become a norm to the point where it is the rule rather than the exception. But this really is the case in the demanding circumstances of the early twenty-first century. So the fact of change surely now barely merits attention: it underpins how organisations run and plan themselves. What is perhaps new is the rate of change. Take one statistic: that, even in 2013, 20 per cent of all Google daily searches are new.

So the challenge for you as a leader is to manage the rate of change, and specifically a rate of change which is accelerating, and to implement today’s set of changes while planning for tomorrow’s. To face this escalation of the pace of change, you need ...