"The 7 Conversations is a unique model for organizations to grow and innovate in a team-based way with a powerful transformation accelerator."
-Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones

An actionable blueprint for transformational business journeys from Growth River founder Richard Hawkes

Leading transformation in teams, businesses, and organizations is complex, and leaders are expected to know how to do it. Navigating the Swirl provides the clear thinking required to navigate this challenge.

In Navigate the Swirl: 7 Conversations for Business Transformation renowned growth and strategy leader Richard Hawkes delivers a simple and powerful framework that any team can apply to overcome the most common leadership challenges to growing and scaling companies, known as "The Swirl." In this straightforward book, he draws on decades of experience guiding teams to implement strategic change at companies like Edward Jones, GENEWIZ, Hitachi, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, and Chicos.

You'll learn:

• To understand and lead disruptive change in a complex social system - your company
• Ways to visualize and diagnose the essential working parts of a company
• How to apply an integrated toolset for teams to lead organizational change and business transformation
• How to create transformational journey maps that leaders, teams, businesses, and companies must apply to unleash growth potential and agility
• How networks of teams should work together to develop each other's leadership and to manage and accelerate change

Written as a practical guide for business and team leaders, Navigate the Swirl: 7 Conversations for Business Transformation belongs on the desks and in the hands of every purpose driven leader.

About the Author

Richard S. Hawkes is the Founder of Growth River, an international consultancy that guides leaders and teams to create higher performance in businesses and organizations. Its practical mission is to make high- performing ways of working easier. He works with companies to identify and resolve constraints to success, including Edward Jones, GENEWIZ, Hitachi, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mars. He sees purpose-driven, customer- focused, team-based, multi-stakeholder businesses as our best bet for solving the big problems.

Reviews
"...an absorbing business book that brilliantly addresses how to cope with the turbulence of change, culminating in "seven critical conversations" that lead to organizational transformation." Kirkus Reviews



Book Information
ISBN 9781119868798
Author Richard S. Hawkes
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 28mm