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The world today can be best described by one word: turbulence. As change rages all around, how can you-as an individual or as an organization-take advantage of unexpected opportunities and succeed in difficult circumstances?In a book that challenges traditional notions of strategy, Baba Prasad draws on his research at some of the world's best business schools to show how intelligence can help you and your business navigate this maelstrom. The Intelligences Framework presented in Nimble goes beyond the common management concept of 'agility'-it presents an immensely practical and hands-on approach for companies and individuals to develop five kinds of intelligences and apply them in different settings for maximum benefit. Bridging strategy, leadership and innovation-and with vivid illustrations-Nimble provides a path-breaking assessment methodology and a systematic four-step approach that every company and individual can use to lead amid turbulence.

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Gestion et management

Strategic management

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	24 avril 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184006940
Langue	English

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BABA PRASAD

Nimble
How Intelligences Can Create Agile Companies and Wise Leaders
RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
Contents
Preface
1. Strategy and Leadership in Turbulent Times
2. The Search for Agility: Expanding Old Mindsets and Embracing New Paradigms
3. Intelligences-Driven Agility
4. Analytical Intelligence
5. Operational Intelligence
6. Inventive Intelligence
7. Communicative Intelligence
8. Visionary Intelligence
9. How to Develop Leadership and Build Strategy around Intelligences
10. Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Footnotes
3. Intelligences-Driven Agility
7. Communicative Intelligence
Acknowledgements
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Praise for Nimble
Prasad offers a very interesting new paradigm that enables visionary leadership and agile strategy even when there is tremendous uncertainty and lack of predictability surrounding us. The framework of five intelligences promises to change the thinking on strategy and leadership -Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group
Our society is changing rapidly due to technological progress. Corporations must adapt to uncertainty to create innovative products and services. Baba Prasad has identified the elephant in the room-the role of strategic, analytical and operational intelligence in succeeding in these turbulent times. A must-read for the entrepreneurs of today -Narayana Murthy, founder, Infosys
Are you a cheetah, a bear, a dinosaur-or a human? To find out how agile you are in business, read Nimble -Gita Piramal, author and business historian
In a world where turmoil is the only constant, Nimble charts a bold new path for leadership, strategy and innovation. This is a mindset-changing book for executives and students of business -Don Tapscott, bestselling author of The Digital Economy
Taking a radically different approach, this book demonstrates how five intelligences make us indomitable and enterprising, and at the same time, unselfish and giving leaders. Prasad s five intelligences framework helps build companies that are dynamic, resilient and visionary -Vijay Govindarajan, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School
The world is changing too fast, too suddenly, and in totally unexpected ways-lumbering momentum is no longer a guarantee of success . . . Baba Prasad provides a powerful framework to make an organization-or a leader-agile, and illustrates it creatively with real-life business cases -Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
Prasad unearths a fundamental truth posited by Darwin and connects it to business, namely that agility and emotional intelligence are as vital to business as they are to human survival. If we want to compete to win in the jungle of business, we must gear up as emotionally intelligent and human-centered leaders of dynamic cultures that enable the realization of a strategically agile business model. This is a powerful articulation of a new axiom that will define business strategy in the decades to come -John Replogle, CEO, Seventh Generation Products
The pace of change we are experiencing currently is like nothing we have seen before. Rapid technology change has brought massive disruption as well as unprecedented opportunity. Our future depends on our ability to sense and respond quickly to this ever-changing environment. Nimble s insightful framework of five intelligences offers an interesting methodology for developing capabilities to manage and thrive in this uncertainty -Francisco D Souza, CEO, Cognizant
In this essential book, Baba Prasad distils how leaders and organizations can embrace the constant pace of change to be more effective and accelerate growth. This book contains a wealth of wisdom for anyone interested in building a better business -Tom Rath, #1 Amazon bestselling author of StrengthsFinder 2.0 and Are You Fully Charged?
The one thing you need to understand to win in business today? Nimble. Do it, be it and strive for it. Baba Prasad s latest book will show you how -Claire Diaz-Ortiz, early Twitter employee and Silicon Valley innovator
Nimble shows how we can anticipate and adapt to an increasingly chaotic world-and become better leaders, strategists and innovators along the way -Adam Grant, professor at the Wharton School and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
Baba Prasad drives the point that just having smart people is not enough for companies success; rather, a company culture that enables people to apply different intelligences will turn them into agile entrepreneurs and empowered change agents, and give greater success to the company over competitors -Frans van Houten, president and CEO, Royal Philips NV
Nimble serves as a guide for understanding the evolution of business practices that enabled success in their respective eras, and introduces a pragmatic framework for how those practices must evolve to compete and win in today s environment. Definitely a must-read for leaders of any-sized organization or team -Brad D. Smith, president and CEO, Intuit
Fascinating and comprehensive, Nimble pushes management-related thinking of the past into refreshing new paradigms for the present. An easy read, the book provides practical steps to address agility for leaders, administrators and managers, from both the private and public sectors -Meeran Borwankar, additional director general of police, Maharashtra
Preface
TODAY S WORLD IS BEST DESCRIBED BY ONE WORD: turbulence . Whether we are talking of business climates or our own personal lives, change is all around us; and the additional complication is that the speed of change itself is rapidly increasing. Life for businesses and individuals is marked by a string of curveballs, inflection points, disruptions, and the like-and like everything in life, some of these unpredicted happenings are positive and some are negative. An unexpected labour strike or a sudden choking of its supply chain may confront a company, or new technology may help it create an exciting innovation. A change in government may open up new market opportunities or it could bring stricter regulations. Similarly, an executive may be faced with the sudden resignation of a critical subordinate or become embroiled in a communication crisis with a key customer; an unanticipated promotion, on the other hand, may open up a new leadership opportunity. Organizations and individuals are seeking ways in which to capitalize on unforeseen opportunities and to cope with unanticipated hurdles. Unfortunately, in a world where the unforeseen and the unanticipated are happening at a faster and faster pace, older ideologies and familiar methods are proving grossly inadequate; organizations and executives need new paradigms and new frameworks.
In this context, Nimble presents answers to two related questions: In turbulent environments and times, how can organizations and individuals develop capabilities to not only survive and succeed, but also to emerge as leaders and sustain leadership positions? In conditions that are characterized by unpredictability, risk and deep uncertainty, conditions that call for short-term reactive responses, how can we create strategy-whether for an organization or for ourselves as individuals-that will also help us be successful in the long term?
This book makes two exciting and major contributions to business thinking. First, it shows that the concept of strategy-which has so far been based on understanding and managing risk and not uncertainty-now changes from being a plan of actions to be executed in the future to becoming one of developing capabilities within the company so that the appropriate strategy can unfold as the company adapts to emerging situations. Traditional management relies on being able to project trends (risk-based decision-making) and is incapable of predicting inflections (sudden turns from the trend). The turbulence of the business world today makes inflection the new normality of business. Nimble argues that instead of engaging in the futile exercise of predicting inflections, companies and individuals should develop capabilities that will allow them to deal with the inflections as and when they occur.
The second contribution of this book is to show how companies and individuals can build these capabilities to deal with unpredictable inflections. For this, the book draws on the quintessentially human characteristic of intelligence-that drives adaptability in humans as our evolutionary history demonstrates. The book formulates and presents a model of five intelligences that companies need to develop and apply differently according to context. In so doing, the book brings a much-needed mix of human orientation and microeconomic thinking to the field of strategic management, which is struggling to break loose from the confines of exclusively microeconomic thinking that has dominated the field for the last several decades. Now you have the answer to why I have used companies and individuals so frequently until now-the same intelligence framework applies, whether the agent is an individual or a collective group.
By bringing a focus on strategy as capability-building and providing a methodology built around the framework of five intelligences, the book breaks the artificial divide that management thinking has created between leadership (of individuals) and innovation and strategy (of companies). The book will thus show how the intelligences framework can be applied to company strategy (Organizational Intelligences TM ) and to personal leadership (Leadership Intelligences TM ).
BACKGROUND
The idea that drives Nimble goes back to 1997 when the e-commerce boom, riding on the newly available Internet, was rocking the world-a time when exciting new business models and paradigms were being constructed and challenged at the same time. Having just graduated from the Wha