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How To Lead A Quest: A Guidebook for Pioneering Leaders Kindle Edition

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Unlock progress through doubt and uncertainty

The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress.

Workplace cultures have become cursed with efficiency. And so when it comes to developing strategy, we default to our defaults.We favour quick fixes, easy templates and familiar approaches, developing ‘robust plans' that do little to mitigate strategic risk or generate new value. The result? The future comes, and businesses die.

But no longer! *cue trumpets* How to Lead a Quest is a book for pioneering leaders - folks who know that enterprise strategy is far too important to condemn to ‘smart goals', 'a clear vision for the future' and other such rubbish. Within this book, you'll discover how to:

liberate enterprise leadership and workplace cultures from the curse of efficiency, default thinking and the delusion of progress
explore complex and uncertain futures to find profound insights that mitigate strategic risks and ensure your business model remains viable
create new value and enduring relevance by pioneering into unchartered and unprecedented territory
embed new structures and rituals into your enterprise to build for the future, while still delivering operational excellence today.

Not for the faint of heart or short-of-wit, this uniquely refreshing book bravely tackles the paradox that is pioneering leadership. You'll discover how to lead meaningful progress - even if you don't know what the goal or destination looks like.

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306 pages
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English
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Wiley
Publication date

29 December 2015
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3274 KB
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Dr Jason Fox is a modern day wizard-rogue with enterprise lock-picking skills and a learnable knack for navigating through uncharted territory.

With deep expertise in motivation strategy and design, Jason unlocks and amplifies pioneering leadership within enterprise strategy and workplace culture.

His clients include the senior executives of Fortune 500 and ASX 200 companies, through to bold startups in rapid rowth.

Learn more at drjasonfox.com

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This thoroughly nifty book will show you how to:

Liberate enterprise leadership and workplace culture from the curse of efficiency, default thinking and the delusion of progress.
Explore uncertain, complex and ambiguous futures to find profound insights that mitigate strategic risk while keeping your business model viable.
Create new value and enduring relevance by pioneering into uncharted and unprecedented territory.
Connect disparate silos and business units into an enterprise structure that is networked and responsive.
Craft an enterprise culture that values experimentation and learning building for tomorrow while still delivering operational excellence today.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A038WIS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (29 December 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3274 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages

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Laurie R

Pioneering leadership - go for it

Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2017

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Massively disruptively coolly sagely and swashbucklingly impacted me beyond my wildest hopes. Not for the stay in the box doing the same old same old don't rock the boat non groovy dude - but then actually it could be if that stereotyped person is actually wanting to be ahead in the leadership game and is willing to flexibly give it a go. Excellent challenge advice and encouragement written in a seriously fun Kraken defeating (read book) style. This is a cracker of a leadership book. So many of the concepts are transferable from business to home to friendships to charities and church! In case you haven't understood me yet I loved this and am incorporating loads of it into my life.

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Greg

"Dont look for facts or answers look for better questions"

Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2016

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Excellent easy read that constantly challenges you to move from default solutions to embracing a science based approach to disproving future states (hypothesis) where constant learning and progress should exist to help and organisation stay relevant...and if you resist?...beware of the Kracken!!

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NatoNoel

Bring Me That Horizon!

Reviewed in Australia on 12 February 2016

Hat Tips Ahoy to the fantastic Dr.Jason Fox for the labour of love that is his second book, How to Lead a Quest.
A pioneering work for people who see to be pioneering executives.
Jason's unique style permeates the book, with wonder-full section headings like:
"Default Thinking and the Kraken of Doom"; "A Quest Beckons"
And chapter titles like:
"A Rainbow of Growth and Despair"; "Here be Dragons"; "Intriguing Incoherence"; and "Bimodal Beginnings"
the book takes you on a dizzying yet easy to follow journey through why quests are important, what you need to look out for, and how to go about leading a quest of your own.
Suitable for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs alike, it's a compelling a fresh take on the hoary old chestnuts of strategic planning.
Buy the paperback off his website [...] and you get a signed copy (which I did), and then buy the kindle version so you've got both hard copy and digital. It's worth every penny.

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Must read!

Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2016

If you get excited by the idea of avoiding obsolescence, pioneering into new ways of doing things and detest formulaic business books then what you need to be doing is picking up a copy of ‘How to Lead a Quest’ from Dr Jason Fox.

I don’t think I’ve ever described a business/strategy/change book as an ‘exciting read’ but here I am breaking tradition and loudly exclaiming that this book is a must read – especially, if like me, you benefit greatly from someone taking incredibly complex ideas and making them much easier to understand.

The added benefit of this book is the author actually manages to not only explain those complex ideas well, but make you feel like you’re now one of the smart people in the room for having read it.

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Ritchie Gibson

A great book.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 May 2016

A great book for anyone looking to improve their business or organisation.

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M. Horn

Sehr inspirierend und wirklich hilfreich

Reviewed in Germany on 22 February 2019

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Ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch für alle, die den Status Quo satt haben oder die eingetretene Pfade verlassen wollen.

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Ricky

Good guidebook

Reviewed in the United States on 16 April 2019

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I like the way the author describe the purpose of venturing into pioneering work is to make meaningful progress to keep the business relevant in possible future context. It is unarguable fact that future is not certain, nobody can predict how exactly the future would be. But there are signs, trends and patterns that we can observe today that can help guide us to prepare ourselves to stay relevant all the time before it is too late.

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