New Giants Rising: How Leaders Can Help People and Companies Grow During the Followership Crisis

163 Pages·2018·2.423 MB·English

by  Paul D. Fisher

New Giants Rising
How Leaders Can Help People
and Companies Grow During the
Followership Crisis
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New Giants Rising
How Leaders Can Help People
and Companies Grow During the
Followership Crisis
Paul Fisher
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Names: Fisher, Paul D., author.
Title: New giants rising : how leaders can help people and companies grow during the followership crisis /
Paul D. Fisher.
Description: New York : Taylor & Francis, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017054458| ISBN 9781138626492 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780815377962 (hardback :
alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315228174 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Corporations—Growth. | Crisis management. | Leadership.
Classification: LCC HD2746 .F57 2018 | DDC 658.4/06—dc23
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Colleen! Look!
You
were
right!
It really IS getting brighter o ut!!!
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Contents
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................ix
About the Author ......................................................................................xi
Introduction ............................................................................................xiii
1 New Giants Rising ..............................................................................1
2 Leaderless ..........................................................................................17
3 The Followership Story ...................................................................31
When Technology Followed Technology ������������������������������������������������33
When People Followed Technology ��������������������������������������������������������35
When People Followed People ����������������������������������������������������������������36
Renewal of the Cycle ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������38
4 Social Mobility ..................................................................................45
5 Unique and Meaningful ...................................................................57
6 Equality ..............................................................................................67
7 Sustainable Impermanence .............................................................79
8 Coming Together ..............................................................................93
9 Keeping Together ...........................................................................105
10 Working Together ............................................................................119
Professional Service Organizations ��������������������������������������������������������126
Universities and Their Students �������������������������������������������������������������127
Financial Capital Markets �����������������������������������������������������������������������127
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Government Policy Makers ��������������������������������������������������������������������128
Social Capital Markets �����������������������������������������������������������������������������129
11 A Reason to Grow ...........................................................................131
Index ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������141
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Acknowledgments
It’s been a long, strange trip from writing Beyond the Days of the Giants
in 2013 to New Giants Rising here in 2018� At its start, my authoring coach
Laurie Harper taught me how not to write like a jerk� In its middle, my
speaking coach Kathy Crandall taught me how to stop talking like one� And
best of all, just before I started writing New Giants Rising, my daughter Anne
Fisher explained to me that it might be a good idea if I stopped thinking
like one too�
My editor, Erik Hane, made New Giants Rising possible through his
willingness to dig into that thinking with me—even when, at times, it
seemed delusional to both of us�
And at long last I need to publicly thank my colleague, friend, and
managing partner, Loren Viere� None of my work would exist had he not
created such a challenging environment at our firm� Without it, I never
would have found the resolve to define the reason to grow of a new
profession—and the emerging decision economy that it is learning to serve�
Colleen, I’ll see you at the Tower of London�
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