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The Journey of Not Knowing

by Julie Benezet
Kearns, Gail
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The Journey of Not Knowing offers a new approach to one of the most elusive but essential leadership capabilities for the future: navigating the unknown. This book will inspire everyone who leads, whether it's a large corporation or small project team, to treat the scariness of the unknown as a source of opportunity rather than a deterrent to pursuing new ways to compete for customers, capital, and talent in the 21st Century. Written in an accessible, entertaining style, The Journey of Not Knowing allows its readers to confront their worst fears and discover what they need to know to overcome challenges in their business, coworkers, and themselves to achieve greater heights. The book tells the story of one business day in the lives of the leadership team at Arrow, Inc., a fictional company with characters very familiar to anyone who has worked in a business environment. To win a project with Porter, a new client critical to its bottom line, Arrow has to explain why a former client fired them. None of the Arrow leadership team knows the answer. Until Porter asked its question, each has managed to avoid the issue. To solve the mystery, every team member embarks on a journey of not knowing to push through many defensive and ineffective behaviors to win the business. The Journey principles, outlined at the end of the book, comprise the foundation of a leadership program that has been attended by executives from around the world over the last five years. (www.journeyofnotknowing.com) "Benezet shows very simply how we become trapped by our hooks into endless dreary cycles of limitation, and how we can liberate ourselves into the vast opportunities that await when we risk stepping beyond the known." – Susan Cannon, PhD, co-author of The Way of the Mysterial Woman: Upgrading How You Live, Love, and Lead "A fun read that takes lessons from Amazon's early days and uses a fictional business story to teach us how to be better leaders and teammates. Benezet does a wonderful job in focusing us on the unknowns literally right in front of us—our teams and ourselves. A page-turner that doesn't rely on murder or explosions, at least not literally!" –Asuka Nakahara, Associate Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton "Benezet captures the spirit of a real leader . . . one who has the courage to take on the unknown with a balance of analytical brilliance and drive for making things better when there is no roadmap. " — Gail Ayers, PhD, CEO CREW Network "Through the vehicle of a well-crafted and entertaining story, The Journey of Not Knowing provides a great teaching tool for both established and emerging leaders. The book skillfully raises awareness of how defensive behaviors against the unknown can get in the way of their success as leaders. The lessons are reinforced by a story from the author's experiences as an early Amazon executive and a primer of the Journey principles that follows the story. I highly recommend this great read." — Patricia Langer, EVP, Human Resources at NBC Universal, Inc. "The Journey of Not Knowing combines the many years of business world experience of its author with astute observation of human behavior. Using a story format to describe familiar and widespread defensive organizational behaviors, Benezet intimately describes the evolution of a leadership team from resistance to engagement in order to solve a critical business problem. The Journey model included at the back of the book explains how they got there. The book is fresh, fun and inspiring." —Cindy Aden, Washington State Librarian
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Publisher: Morton Hill Press

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  • Release date: October 15, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780997813913
  • File size: 2151 KB
  • Release date: October 15, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780997813913
  • File size: 2025 KB
  • Release date: October 15, 2016
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Business Management Nonfiction

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The Journey of Not Knowing offers a new approach to one of the most elusive but essential leadership capabilities for the future: navigating the unknown. This book will inspire everyone who leads, whether it's a large corporation or small project team, to treat the scariness of the unknown as a source of opportunity rather than a deterrent to pursuing new ways to compete for customers, capital, and talent in the 21st Century. Written in an accessible, entertaining style, The Journey of Not Knowing allows its readers to confront their worst fears and discover what they need to know to overcome challenges in their business, coworkers, and themselves to achieve greater heights. The book tells the story of one business day in the lives of the leadership team at Arrow, Inc., a fictional company with characters very familiar to anyone who has worked in a business environment. To win a project with Porter, a new client critical to its bottom line, Arrow has to explain why a former client fired them. None of the Arrow leadership team knows the answer. Until Porter asked its question, each has managed to avoid the issue. To solve the mystery, every team member embarks on a journey of not knowing to push through many defensive and ineffective behaviors to win the business. The Journey principles, outlined at the end of the book, comprise the foundation of a leadership program that has been attended by executives from around the world over the last five years. (www.journeyofnotknowing.com) "Benezet shows very simply how we become trapped by our hooks into endless dreary cycles of limitation, and how we can liberate ourselves into the vast opportunities that await when we risk stepping beyond the known." – Susan Cannon, PhD, co-author of The Way of the Mysterial Woman: Upgrading How You Live, Love, and Lead "A fun read that takes lessons from Amazon's early days and uses a fictional business story to teach us how to be better leaders and teammates. Benezet does a wonderful job in focusing us on the unknowns literally right in front of us—our teams and ourselves. A page-turner that doesn't rely on murder or explosions, at least not literally!" –Asuka Nakahara, Associate Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton "Benezet captures the spirit of a real leader . . . one who has the courage to take on the unknown with a balance of analytical brilliance and drive for making things better when there is no roadmap. " — Gail Ayers, PhD, CEO CREW Network "Through the vehicle of a well-crafted and entertaining story, The Journey of Not Knowing provides a great teaching tool for both established and emerging leaders. The book skillfully raises awareness of how defensive behaviors against the unknown can get in the way of their success as leaders. The lessons are reinforced by a story from the author's experiences as an early Amazon executive and a primer of the Journey principles that follows the story. I highly recommend this great read." — Patricia Langer, EVP, Human Resources at NBC Universal, Inc. "The Journey of Not Knowing combines the many years of business world experience of its author with astute observation of human behavior. Using a story format to describe familiar and widespread defensive organizational behaviors, Benezet intimately describes the evolution of a leadership team from resistance to engagement in order to solve a critical business problem. The Journey model included at the back of the book explains how they got there. The book is fresh, fun and inspiring." —Cindy Aden, Washington State Librarian
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Business Management Nonfiction