In a world of chaos, how can generative AI help leaders lead?

Over the next decade, all leaders will be augmented with some form of generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI. For the best leaders, this will mean dramatic improvement. For mediocre leaders, this will mean persistent confusion, distraction, and pretense. With futureback thinking—looking ten years ahead, then planning backward from future to next to now—this third edition of Leaders Make the Future shows how people can improve their leadership skills while expanding their human perspective.

Now 75 percent revised and expanded with resources from the Institute for the Future, this new edition is organized around ten future leadership skills:
Augmented futureback curiosity
Augmented clarity
Augmented dilemma flipping
Augmented bio-engaging
Augmented immersive learning
Augmented depolarizing
Augmented commons creating
Augmented smart mob swarming
Augmented strength with humility
Human calming

AI-augmented leadership will be key for any organization to tackle the uncertainty of the future. And by incorporating practical methodologies, ethical guidelines, and innovative leadership practices, this book will help leaders develop their clarity and moderate their certainty.

Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.

Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation and collective action to create a world where economies and businesses excel, all people thrive, and nature flourishes.

In part I, The Business of Business Is Betterment, the contributors show how enterprises today are further developing-and even taking a quantum leap beyond-the multistakeholder logic of shared value creation. Part II, Net Positive = Innovation's New Frontier, is focused on what companies can and are doing to move away from doing no harm to playing an active role in solving environmental, social, and economic problems. The final section, Ultimate Advantage: A Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything, looks at new leadership paradigms-characterized by unexpected qualities like virtue, love, compassion, and connection-that are crucial to creating engaged, empowered, innovative, and out-performing enterprises.

This book is designed to galvanize change and unite a global community of inquiry and action. It establishes the conceptual cornerstones for a new kind of business practice that will lead the way to an equitable, sustainable, and flourishing future.

The final guide in the acclaimed inclusivity trilogy introduces an actionable 5-step framework for building truly equitable, high-performing teams.

In today's workplace, teams are the key organizing principle through which most work gets done. This makes teams the prime environment where employees can feel they truly belong, are valued, and contribute their best. However, simply having a diverse team does not automatically translate to more innovation and performance. True inclusion must be operationalized. With decades of experience leading organizations and developing cutting-edge research, Andrés Tapias and Michel Buffet provide a revolutionary 5 Disciplines model to build authentically inclusive teams that unlock the full potential of diverse perspectives.

Based on Tapias' work at Korn Ferry, an international consultancy powerhouse, the 5 Disciplines are:

•Connecting - Going beyond surface levels to deeply understand team members
•Caring - Actively supporting teammates' professional and personal needs
•Storytelling - Sharing powerful narratives that transform mindsets
•Executing - Implementing inclusive practices to get work done equitably
•Innovating - Harnessing diverse ideas to create new value and win the future

By mastering these 5 Disciplines, teams create an environment of true belonging and psychological safety. Members feel empowered to take risks, have candid discussions, and collectively arrive at bold innovations. The result is unparalleled creativity, engagement, and performance that diverse teams promise but seldom fully achieve without intentional inclusivity. With insightful guidance, real-world examples, and a tested framework, this book provides the essential operating system for building inclusive teams that shape the future.

We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole. Filled with real-world examples, this thought-provoking guide presents proven practices for building a new economy that is more resilient, intentional, inclusive, and aware.

Facing, as we do today, chaotic, organic, continuous, and inevetiable change-both in our organizations and in our communities-the challenge facing leaders, consultants, and other change agents is to discover new ways to focus our creativity, ingenuity, and energy to proactively create the future we want.

Grounded in sound change theory and a thirty-year history of successful practice, Preferred Futuring details a change model that is radically different from the "medical model" of old (diagnose what's wrong and try to fix it). In contrast, this proven process mobilizes a whole human system to envision the future they want, then develop strategies to get there. Preferred Futuring provides the practical tools needed to develop clear action plans that link vision to action and spirit, with bottom-line results.

A lifetime of deeply rooted connections in the field of organization development makes Larry Lippitt eminently qualified to bring together this never-before-told story of Preferred Futuring-the powerful tool for bringing deeper meaning and spirit into the workplace and creating the future we desire. For the first time, Lippitt fully explores the underlying research, theory, and philosophy of this futuring model , and details the tools to make it work for you.

Numerous real-life examples illustrate the practical applications of the process and how it can be used successfully as a leadership tool, a management and supervisory tool, a process improvement tool, an organization alignment tool, or a tool for restructuring. In large and small organizations-from Fortune 500 companies and health care organizations to school systems and city governments-Preferred Futuring involves everyone directly in whole system, rapid, strategic change, process improvement, and even personal planning.

For organization redesign and transformation, and as a necessary foundation for strategic planning and action, Lippitt details the three critical phases of this whole system change process:
o define your now state, including how you got where you are, your accomplishments and disappointments, your core beliefs, and the trends you see over the horizon
o define your Preferred Future state that capitalizes on your strengths and details the kind of organization or community that excites everyone involved
o engage in a logical and predictable action planning process with specific steps that connect the planning to the doing

Lippitt offers sage wisdom for those new to the process as well as those with some experience on traps to avoid, how to deal successfully with resistance, and, most importantly, steps in the process that are the most critical to success.

• A powerful, proven process that links the act of managing change to the "spirit" in today's workplace
• The never-before-told story of Preferred Futuring and the field-tested tools to put it in practice today
• Applies the New Science mental model from Modern Physics to a three-phase process for whole system change

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA’s product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised, reorganized, and updated with nine new chapters. It contains new cases and examples, advice on combining Future Search with other methods, and a summary of formal research studies. The chapters on facilitating diversity provide a theory, philosophy, and method for working with any task group. Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff offer specific guidance for Future Search sponsors, steering committees, participants, and facilitators and new ideas for sustaining action after the Future Search ends. They’ve added striking evidence of Future Search’s efficacy over time, examples of its economic benefits, guidelines for making Future Searches green, and much more. They include a wealth of resources—handouts, sample client workbooks, follow-up methods, and other practical tools. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organi-zational restructuring, mergers, or any other major change requiring stakeholder en-gagement, this book is your guide.

• The latest edition of the classic, definitive book on a change method proven effective worldwide

• Thoroughly revised and updated, with nine new chapters

• Provides a wealth of tools, handouts, and other practical aids

 

Future Search is one of the best established, most widespread and most effective methods for enabling groups of people to collectively move forward. It has been used all over the world for all kinds of purposes: to redesign an IKEA product line in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, organize the demobilization child soldiers in Southern Sudan, and help a Hawaiian community reconnect with traditional values, This book, written by the originators of the process, is the most up-to-date edition of the definitive work on this powerful change method.

Incorporating input from the worldwide Future Search community, the third edition has been completely revised, reorganized and updated, including nine brand new chapters. There are new cases and examples throughout, as well as new material on using virtual technologies to hold Future Searches, combining Future Search with other change methods, and the growing global reach of Future Search. Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff have greatly streamlined the process, providing specific guidance for Future Search sponsors, steering committees, participants, and facilitators, and new suggestions for how to sustain action after the Future Search is over. Theyve added information on the economic benefits of a Future Search, striking evidence of Future Searchs efficacy, information how Future Searches can go green, and more.

Future Search uniquely enables people to take down the walls that keep them apart, and Weisbord and Janoff take you through every step of the process. They include a wealth of resources such as handouts, sample client workbooks, follow-up reports, and other practical tools.  If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

 

What sets this book apart from similar titles

• Other books in this field, such as Built to Change, contain a bias of top-down design which can make their suggestions unwieldy to implement. This book takes a more grassroots approach to searching for the future, where all stakeholders work cooperatively to create a shared vision of the future.  
• It is an optimistic, aspiring book, which describes the change process as "an emotional rollercoaster" which can be upsetting at times but is overall exciting and fun. The Heart of Change Field Guide focuses more on the difficulties and obstacles of leading change within an organization (how to "get around" the people who drag you down, hold you back, etc.)  Future Search's emphasis on both positivity and inclusivity sets it apart among change books.  
• Future Search methods are so successful, that thousands of people around the world have sought and received training from the Future Search Network: http://www.futuresearch.net/.