Techdirt Podcast Episode 308: Getting Out Of Control
from the big-and-complex dept
Embrace the Beauty of Life’s Chaos
Getting Out of Control explains why effective leaders seek to influence rather than to control. It offers six principles of the emergent mindset to help leaders in public, corporate, or private life maximize their influence and avoid the pointless pursuit of control in our complex, out-of-control world.
Beautifully Ordered Systems Can
Exist, Even When No One’s In Control
In this ground-breaking book, Neil Chilson makes the case that the best response to complexity is an emergent mindset that seeks opportunities to “get out of control.” This mindset requires people to embrace their autonomy as individuals and admit limitations as part of something larger.
The emergent mindset confounds managers grasping for control but holds great promise for leaders willing to adopt it.
Our lives are lived at the intersection of vast systems (economic, technological, and beyond) that are incredibly complex and often chaotic, and it's hard to understand and embrace what author Neil Chilson's new book, Getting Out Of Control, calls "the emergent mindset." On this week's episode, Neil joins us to discuss his book and why you can't simply "control" complex systems.
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Challenging everything you know
about leadership and control
This book offers new perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of governance in an age of complexity. It will help you understand why we so often fail to improve ourselves and how to adapt to that. In this complex world, our hope as leaders lies not in gaining control, but in influencing the order that emerges under no one person’s control.
Published by New Degree Press
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