The Road to Audacity Being Adventurous In

Being audacious and adventurous can be inspiring, but is often submerged by concerns for comfort and security. The authors argue that to be successful in a more uncertain environment individuals and organizations need to adopt a more adventurous and audacious approach.

Steven Carter is Managing Director, Apter International.

Jeremy Kourdi is a Freelance Writer and Business Consultant.

List of Figures and Tables

viii

Preface

ix

Prelude What is Audacity?

1

(1)

Journeys and destinations

2

(1)

This happy band

3

(2)

Note

5

(1)

The Road to Audacity

6

(16)

Living in a clockwork world?

6

(2)

Why risk it? The value of risk-taking and audacity

8

(3)

Driven to audacity - the case of Chrysler

11

(1)

The inevitability of risk

12

(1)

Handling uncertainty

13

(5)

An unreasonable art

18

(2)

Travelling the road to audacity

20

(1)

Notes

21

(1)

Why? The Audacity Factor

22

(10)

Why be audacious?

22

(1)

The search for excitement

23

(1)

The puzzle of why

24

(2)

Born audacious?

26

(2)

The promise of inconsistency

28

(2)

What uncertainty offers

30

(1)

Notes

31

(1)

The Eight Ways of Being

32

(20)

Consistently inconsistent: how we deal with arousal

33

(3)

Experiencing the world

36

(1)

Intention: goals versus means

37

(3)

Inclusion: fitting in versus falling out

40

(3)

Interaction: transactions versus relationships

43

(2)

Identification: me versus you

45

(3)

Connecting to audacity

48

(2)

Notes

50

(2)

The Meaning of Mountains

52

(5)

The 'real 'dangerous edge

52

(1)

Mountains and reversal theory

53

(1)

Learning from the journey

54

(2)

A motivationally rich promise

56

(1)

Note

56

(1)

Walking the Dangerous Edge

57

(20)

How can we be audacious?

57

(1)

Stepping up to the dangerous edge

57

(4)

The confidence frame and the England middle order batting collapse

61

(1)

But confidence in what?

62

(3)

Switching between states: fracturing the protective frame

65

(1)

Establishing protective frames

66

(4)

Awareness

70

(2)

Are you with me?

72

(1)

How organisations can be aware of an uncertain future

73

(2)

The audacity factor

75

(1)

Notes

76

(1)

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Employee?

77

(18)

Organisations need audacity

77

(2)

Employee-phobia

79

(2)

Malice, laziness and downright corruption

81

(2)

The paradox of audacity and the squandering of talent

83

(1)

Can the paradox be resolved?

84

(1)

What do you get when you trust people to be audacious?

85

(1)

The people you want, want to be audacious

86

(1)

The war for talent

87

(1)

Audacity delivers

88

(2)

... and is innovative

90

(2)

What does it take for an organisation to be audacious?

92

(1)

The very big picture

92

(2)

Notes

94

(1)

Leadership Matters

95

(22)

The need for leadership

97

(1)

Led astray: why traditional leadership ideas are failing

98

(1)

Leadership is what matters, not simply leaders

98

(1)

Developing audacity through leadership

99

(1)

Building microclimates

100

(1)

What's it like being around you? The eight microclimate conditions

101

(4)

A role model for climate-building?

105

(2)

Mandela

107

(2)

The demon seen

109

(1)

Captain Mainwaring and Private Fraser

110

(2)

Leadership communities

112

(1)

Developing a performance climate through a leadership community

113

(3)

The formula

116

(1)

Notes

116

(1)

Of Wildebeest, Buffalo and Bison

117

(8)

About SABMiller

118

(1)

About HSBC

119

(1)

Interesting and exceptional organisations

119

(5)

Notes

124

(1)

Dancing with Customers

125

(12)

Desperately conforming incorporated

125

(5)

Treating customers as real people the final frontier

130

(3)

But love is ... the safest thing

133

(3)

Notes

136

(1)

Building a New Eden -Audacity at Work

137

(14)

About The Eden Project

138

(1)

The dream of Eden

139

(2)

Creating Eden

141

(4)

The motivation to build Eden

145

(3)

The importance of Eden

148

(2)

Notes

150

(1)

The Road from Morocco

151

(7)

Imlil

152

(1)

The Kasbah Du Toukbahl

152

(3)

Audacity -- dreaming with your eyes open

155

(3)

Index

158

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