- Unpicks a method to navigating change and 'what now?' moments, which in today's business world is the skill that is needed to thrive in uncertainty
- Provides actionable tools to evaluate transitions in work and life carefully and discern a way forward rather than encourage a mindless pivot
- Recognizes the creative and positive potentials of transition moments thus empowering readers to embrace them and utilize them for positive growth in their professional life
- Includes extra careers services online resources allowing for optimal applicability for student and young professional markets
Stop, Ask, Explore
Learn to Navigate Change in Times of Uncertainty
Master 'what now?' moments and use life's inevitable interruptions and disruptions as an opportunity to reflect, reorient and grow in your professional life and beyond.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781398605602
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 215x138
256 pages
About the book
FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Award 2023 - Business: Career
Interruptions and disruptions are a threshold to uncharted territory. You can learn to navigate uncertain transitions - and to flourish in times of unrelenting change.
This book offers readers a practical framework for navigating life's inevitable turning points, thresholds and transitions - at work, at home and in between. Drawing upon more than a decade of research and work with established and emerging leaders across the globe, leadership consultant, Joan P. Ball invites you to reimagine your relationship with uncertainty and recognize the creative potential that exists in the messy middle between life's inevitable What Now? Moments and what comes next.
Stop, Ask, Explore is a lively and eye-opening book that will allow you to more effectively engage interruptions and disruptions and develop the experimental mindset needed to flourish in an era of unrelenting and exponential change. Discover the power of curiosity, wayfinding, and discernment to make sense of uncharted territory and learn to thrive in times of uncertainty.
About the authors
Joan P. Ball is an associate professor of Marketing at St. John's University, a researcher and a leadership coach. Joan works with emerging and established leaders to help them navigate flux, build resilience and develop an experimental mindset when faced with tricky transitions. The founder of WOMBLab, she works with individuals, teams and organizations to develop new tools to help leader navigate uncertain transitions and teach others to do the same. She has worked with leaders from companies like Verizon Media, Capital One and Herman Miller. She is based in New York City, New York.
Excellent leaders create conditions that advance and empower those around them, especially in times of uncertainty. In Stop, Ask, Explore, Joan P. Ball offers a field-tested framework and practical tools and approaches to help leaders-from first-time managers to C-suite executives-navigate change and equip their teams to over- come challenges in their presence, as well as their absence.
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