Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility
This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.


Now more than ever, society is demanding change, and organizations are being asked to shift into more conscious and agile business practices. Yet, most of what people believe about leadership, effective workplaces, and how to create lasting change is either incomplete or outright incorrect. And even if the desire to change is there, understanding of how to achieve it is elusive.

This book holds the key. It introduces the Shift Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF), which helps leaders create the understanding and application needed to evolve high performance. At the core of the book are dozens of business patterns that cut across seven dimensions of organizational functioning. The traps of traditional organizations are contrasted with the high-performance practices of evolutionary organizations. Authors Michael Sahota and Audree Tata Sahota explain the steps of leading beyond change—evolving beyond servant leadership to make the inner shift needed to unlock the practical skills and techniques.

Whether readers call this shift business agility, Teal Agility, evolutionary, or the future of work, it is possible to create high-performing organizations filled with energized people who are able to surf the waves of change.
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Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility
This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.


Now more than ever, society is demanding change, and organizations are being asked to shift into more conscious and agile business practices. Yet, most of what people believe about leadership, effective workplaces, and how to create lasting change is either incomplete or outright incorrect. And even if the desire to change is there, understanding of how to achieve it is elusive.

This book holds the key. It introduces the Shift Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF), which helps leaders create the understanding and application needed to evolve high performance. At the core of the book are dozens of business patterns that cut across seven dimensions of organizational functioning. The traps of traditional organizations are contrasted with the high-performance practices of evolutionary organizations. Authors Michael Sahota and Audree Tata Sahota explain the steps of leading beyond change—evolving beyond servant leadership to make the inner shift needed to unlock the practical skills and techniques.

Whether readers call this shift business agility, Teal Agility, evolutionary, or the future of work, it is possible to create high-performing organizations filled with energized people who are able to surf the waves of change.
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Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility

Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility

Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility

Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business Agility

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Overview

This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.


Now more than ever, society is demanding change, and organizations are being asked to shift into more conscious and agile business practices. Yet, most of what people believe about leadership, effective workplaces, and how to create lasting change is either incomplete or outright incorrect. And even if the desire to change is there, understanding of how to achieve it is elusive.

This book holds the key. It introduces the Shift Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF), which helps leaders create the understanding and application needed to evolve high performance. At the core of the book are dozens of business patterns that cut across seven dimensions of organizational functioning. The traps of traditional organizations are contrasted with the high-performance practices of evolutionary organizations. Authors Michael Sahota and Audree Tata Sahota explain the steps of leading beyond change—evolving beyond servant leadership to make the inner shift needed to unlock the practical skills and techniques.

Whether readers call this shift business agility, Teal Agility, evolutionary, or the future of work, it is possible to create high-performing organizations filled with energized people who are able to surf the waves of change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523093465
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 08/24/2021
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 132,893
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Michael K. Sahota is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant on evolving people and organizations. He is the cofounder of SHIFT314 Inc., a boutique training and consulting organization that specializes in the organizational culture and leadership shifts needed to unlock success with agile, digital, lean, and other new ways of working.

Audree Tara Sahota, B.Msc, is chief metaphysics officer and cofounder of SHIFT314 Inc.: specializing in evolutionary leadership development and organizational evolution through the powerful framework SELF, which enables rapid change in the evolution of people and organizations.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Starting the Journey 1

1 An Invitation to the Extraordinary 3

2 Setup for Success 12

3 Leading: The Evolution of Leadership 19

4 Beyond: From Traditional to Evolutionary 26

5 Change: A Radically Different Journey 34

6 Getting the Most from Patterns 42

Part 2 Patterns for Leading Beyond Change 49

7 Unlearning Reality: Can You Handle the Truth? 51

Pattern 7.1 From Denial to Discovering Reality 52

Pattern 7.2 From Learning to Unlearning 58

Pattern 7.3 From the Problem Is out There to the Solution Is in Here 68

8 Getting Results: Beyond Organizational Survival 74

Pattern 8.1 From "We Are OK" to Thriving in a Complex World 75

Pattern 8.2 From Traditional Management to Knowledge Workers 79

Pattern 8.3 From Business as Usual to High-Performance Organizations 84

9 The Truth about Your Organizational Culture 94

Pattern 9.1 From Customer First to Employee First 95

Pattern 9.2 From Oppression to Enablement 100

Pattern 9.3 From Ignoring Culture to Understanding Culture 104

Pattern 9.4 From Values on Posters to "Culture Follows Leadership" 113

10 It's All about the People 120

Pattern 10.1 From Attracting Talent to Caring about People 121

Pattern 10.2 From Fear and Stress to Psychological Safety 127

Pattern 10.3 From Status and Domination to Equal Voice 133

Pattern 10.4 From Disengagement to Engagement 140

Pattern 10.5 From Strengths Development to Self-Development 148

11 The Paradox of Power 153

Pattern 11.1 From Exercising Power to Leading through Influence 154

Pattern 11.2 From Serving Goals to Serving Purpose 161

Pattern 11.3 From Command and Control to Letting Go of Control 166

Pattern 11.4 From Eliminating Hierarchy to Increasing Freedom 174

Pattern 11.5 From Autonomous to Interdependent 181

Pattern 11.6 From Self-Organization to Responsibility 187

Pattern 11.7 From Empowerment to Sharing Decisions 191

Pattern 11.8 From Giving Orders to Using the Advice Process 199

12 Organizational Evolution 204

Pattern 12.1 From Big Bang Transformation to Navigating Complexity 205

Pattern 12.2 From Strategic Plans to Evolving Culture 216

Pattern 12.3 From Urgency to Desire 224

Pattern 12.4 From Rollout Plans to Local Evolution 228

Pattern 12.5 From Changing Structures to Evolving People 237

Pattern 12.6 From Leadership Support to Leadership Leadership 245

Pattern 12.7 From Resistance to Invitation 253

Pattern 12.8 From Mandate to Inspiration 261

13 Evolutionary Leadership 276

Pattern 13.1 From Managing People to Valuing People 277

Pattern 13.2 From Outcomes to Developing Leaders 283

Partem 13.3 From Using Authority to Leading by Example 290

Pattern 13.4 From Unaware to Conscious 298

Pattern 13.5 From Doing to Being 307

Pattern 13.6 From Leadership Development to Self-Evolution 314

Pattern 13.7 From Changing the Organization to Peace with the Ego 321

Part 3 Integration and Application 333

14 Leading: Your Evolutionary Journey 335

15 Beyond: Moving into the Beyond 344

16 Change: Evolving Your Organization 350

17 Application Tips and Traps 357

18 Continuing the Journey 363

Appendix: SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework (Self) 369

References 375

Acknowledgments 383

Index 387

About the Authors 395

About the Illustrator 397

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