The New Nimble

The New Nimble

by Jay Sullivan
Released October 2023
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781394185412

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Book description

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 constantly changing realities and complexities of the COVID-19 crisis.

The book demonstrates how the most adaptable firms internalized and institutionalized lessons from the health emergency and applied those lessons to their everyday operations. You’ll discover:

  • How to go beyond economic, business, and industry trends to make decisions based on immediately relevant—and rapidly changing—demands
  • How to deal with pushback from staff, clients, and the public as you make the changes you need to make in your company
  • Ways to apply the lessons from the COVID-19 crisis to the next unexpected and unpredictable emergency

An essential and practical handbook for managers, executives, founders, directors, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders doing their best to manage their way through chaotic and volatile environments, The New Nimble is the hands-on leadership guide for a new world that we’ve all been waiting for.

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. TITLE PAGE
  4. COPYRIGHT
  5. DEDICATION
  6. INTRODUCTION: THE NEW NIMBLE – LEADING IN THE AGE OF CHANGE
  7. PART I: UNDERSTAND YOUR ESSENCE
    1. CHAPTER 1: Know Yourself (and Let Others Know You, Too)
      1. PROFILE: COVENANT HOUSE (NON-PROFITS) – “YOUR MISSION BRINGS YOU MIRACLES”
      2. MASKING YOUR FACE, NOT YOUR FEELINGS
      3. DEEPER CHALLENGES AND BROADER OPPORTUNITIES
      4. “MISSION” IS MISSION-CRITICAL
      5. TAKEAWAYS
      6. NOTE
    2. CHAPTER 2: Be Your Better Self
      1. PROFILE: BOWERY FARMING (SUSTAINABILITY) – LET YOUR VALUES GUIDE YOU
      2. VALUE #1 – OPT IN
      3. VALUE #2 – THINK WILDLY DIFFERENT
      4. VALUE #3 – BREAK BARRIERS TOGETHER
      5. VALUE #4 – BE KIND TO THE CORE
      6. SUMMARY
      7. TAKEAWAYS
      8. SUGGESTIONS FOR BRAINSTORMING
    3. CHAPTER 3: Accept Your Limits
      1. PROFILE: MEMORIAL HEALTH – CENTRAL ILLINOIS (HEALTHCARE)
      2. HEICS
      3. MEMORIAL'S FIRST STEPS
      4. PROTOCOLS AND PARKING LOTS
      5. THE EVOLUTION OF DECISION-MAKING
      6. COMMUNICATION
      7. COMING TO CONCLUSIONS
      8. “LONG COVID”
      9. SUMMARY
      10. TAKEAWAYS
      11. NOTES
  8. PART II: ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
    1. CHAPTER 4: Think Beyond Yourself
      1. PROFILE – TECHNOLOGY – MAKING TRANSITIONS – LEARN, PRACTICE, AND TRANSFORM
      2. LEARNING REQUIRES HUMILITY
      3. PRACTICE (I.E., REPETITION) BUILDS TRUST
      4. TRANSFORMING REQUIRES ACCEPTANCE – “TRUST” AS A TWO-WAY STREET
      5. TAKEAWAYS
      6. NOTES
    2. CHAPTER 5: Learn What Others Value
      1. PROFILE: PWC (CONSULTING) ENCOURAGING TRUST AS A BONDING AGENT
      2. CHALLENGING YOUR TALENT STRATEGY
      3. DEVELOPING YOUR TEAM'S SKILLS AND INSTINCTS
      4. TAKEAWAYS
      5. NOTES
    3. CHAPTER 6: Seek “Meaningful Knowledge”
      1. PROFILE: SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY (HIGHER ED) – “WE GOT THIS”
      2. DURING THE PANDEMIC
      3. BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
      4. TAKEAWAYS
      5. NOTES
  9. PART III: BE BOLD
    1. CHAPTER 7: Keep It Moving
      1. PROFILE: DOT FOODS, INC. (SUPPLY CHAIN) – DELIVERING IN A CRISIS
      2. BUILDING THE RIGHT EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
      3. BELIEVING IN YOUR INFORMATION
      4. COUNTING ON INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
      5. ACT
      6. TAKEAWAYS
      7. NOTES
    2. CHAPTER 8: Get It Done
      1. PROFILE: U.S. HOUSE CHAMBER ON JANUARY 6, 2021 (GOVERNANCE) – ONE PERSPECTIVE
      2. TAKEAWAYS
      3. NOTE
    3. CHAPTER 9: See the Opportunity
      1. PROFILE: THE NBA (SPORTS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY) – WHERE OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND
      2. ROUTINES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN
      3. MOVING FORWARD
      4. TAKEAWAYS
      5. NOTES
  10. CONCLUSION
  11. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  12. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  13. INDEX
  14. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Product information

  • Title: The New Nimble
  • Author(s): Jay Sullivan
  • Release date: October 2023
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781394185412