Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws

259 Pages·2021·6.883 MB·English

by  Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach

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F R O M T H E B E S T S E L L I N G T E A M T H AT
B R O U G H T Y O U D E T O N AT E
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How Leaders
Shape the Future
by Overcoming
Fatal Human Flaws
G E O F F T U F F
S T E V E N G O L D B A C H
I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y T O M F I S H B U R N E
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Tuff, Geoff, 1970- author. | Goldbach, Steve, 1973- author.
Title: Provoke : how leaders shape the future by overcoming fatal human
flaws / Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2021] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021020639 (print) | LCCN 2021020640 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119764472 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119787556 (adobe pdf) | ISBN
9781119787549 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Leadership.
Classification: LCC HD57.7 .T865 2021 (print) | LCC HD57.7 (ebook) | DDC
658.4/092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020639
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020640
Back Cover Cartoon: © Tom Fishburne
Cover design: Paul McCarthy
For our families: Martha, Michelle, our kids, our siblings,
and especially our parents, who originally provoked us to
look at the world inquisitively.

C
ontents
Introduction ix
PART I PREDICTABLE PATTERNS 1
Chapter 1 Patterns from the Past 3
Chapter 2 On the Importance of “If”
versus “When” 15
Chapter 3 Personal Patterns 29
Chapter 4 Expanding Peripheral Vision 45
PART II PRINCIPLES OF PROVOCATION 63
Chapter 5 Birth of a Provocation 65
Chapter 6 Envision: Seeing the Future 83
Chapter 7 Position: Preparing for the Change 103
Chapter 8 Drive and Adapt: Taking Control 121
Chapter 9 Activate: Harnessing Your Ecosystem 139
PART III PROFILES OF PROVOCATEURS 155
Chapter 10 Deborah Bial 157
Chapter 11 Ryan Gravel 175
Chapter 12 Valerie Irick Rainford 193
Conclusion: Minimally Viable Thoughts 213
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viii Contents
Notes 221
Acknowledgments 231
About the Authors 235
Index 237