Through Shifts and Shocks: Lessons from the Front Line of Technology and Change - Softcover

Vamos, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 139429350X ISBN 13: 9781394293506

Verlag: Wiley, 2024

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FINALIST in MANAGEMENT AND HR at the Australian Business Book Awards

Learn what matters most in leading your team through change

When change is constant and accelerating, our success depends on embracing its potential for growth. Global executive Steve Vamos reveals how powerhouse tech companies like Xero, Microsoft, Apple and IBM thrive by enabling change, creativity and innovation. Inside, you’ll find practical tools and a playbook that will help you manage disruption and successfully align your people and resources with your goals.

From industry challenges to the AI revolution, Through Shifts and Shocks shares a pathway that leaders and teams can follow to navigate change and perform better together. As a leader, you need to understand how to balance being (who you are as a leader) and doing (how you lead through words and actions). Through Shifts and Shocks shares crucial leadership must-dos, engaging stories and surprising insights gleaned from the author’s experiences at the biggest tech organisations in the world.

Discover a framework that will help you and those you work with be better every day:

• Develop the right mindset for change
• Be clear about your priorities and drive alignment
• Assess current performance, strategy and tactics with a diagnostic toolkit
• Make hard choices and have difficult conversations
• Create an environment of psychological safety that encourages your team to innovate and drive growth

When it comes to change, it is not enough to know why. You also need to know how. From real-world examples to practical exercises, this guidebook will show you how to make a vital difference in your team and organisation as you think, act and lead.

'A must-read, sharing inspired insights into what it takes to be a great leader of people and organisations, from one of the best’ ―David Thodey AO

 

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STEVE VAMOS has over 40 years’ experience in the tech industry and has lived and worked in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. A former CEO of Xero, Steve has been an executive leader with Microsoft, Apple, ninemsn and IBM.

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A HANDS-ON GUIDE TO SUCCESS IN FAST-CHANGING AND UNPREDICTABLE TIMES

When change is constant and accelerating, success depends on how we respond. In Through Shifts and Shocks, global executive Steve Vamos reveals, through his experience with powerhouse tech companies―Xero, Microsoft, Apple and IBM, how to make change your superpower.

From industry challenges to the AI revolution, this must-have guide offers a pathway for leaders and teams to navigate change and perform better in the face of uncertainty. Inside, you’ll find crucial leadership must-dos, surprising stories and memorable insights gleaned first-hand from four decades at the world’s biggest tech organisations.

Discover how to:

• develop and encourage the right mindset for change
• be clear about priorities and drive alignment
• assess current performance, strategy and tactics
• have difficult conversations and make hard choices
• create the best environment for innovation and growth.

Are you ready for what comes next? Through Shifts and Shocks gives you the tools you need to embrace disruption and lead through change.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 139429350X
• ISBN 13: 9781394293506
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland