The Light and Fast Organisation

The Light and Fast Organisation
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Hollingworth Patrick. The Light and Fast Organisation

About the author

Introduction

Switzerland, February 2008

How did he do it?

What can we learn?

PART I. The landscape

CHAPTER 1. The perfect storm?

The three forces

Storm outriders

VUCA

How to understand change

CHAPTER 2. The VUCA world

The three forces

Breaking down VUCA

Black Swans

CHAPTER 3. The old world

The opposite of VUCA

The Comfort Paradox

The problems with exponentiality

The three symptoms of VUCA

A crafted future?

CHAPTER 4. How we got so organised

VUCA and the linear organisation

Designed for yesterday

The linear strategy

A temporary fix

The leadership cult

CHAPTER 5. It's about people

An organisation of people

PART II. The approaches

CHAPTER 6. All that is wrong with expedition style

High-altitude organisations

Mountaineering and MBAs?

The wrong type of mountaineering

The origin of expedition style

A desire to control and simplify

CHAPTER 7. All that is right with alpine style

An enduring partnership

The alpine-style ethos

Why alpine style trumps expedition style

CHAPTER 8. Making the transformation

The Transformation Model

PART III. The Alpine Style Model

CHAPTER 9. Three skills

Sensemaking

Decision making

Getting critical

CHAPTER 10. Three insights

Knowing your strengths

Knowing your weaknesses

Risk attitude

CHAPTER 11. Three traits

Growth mindset

A commitment to learning

The anti-alpha

CHAPTER 12. Pulling it all together

Mission

Engagement

Antifragility

Light and fast

With thanks

Index

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Patrick Hollingworth works with people, teams and organisations to help them deal with a world which is becoming more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous by the day.

After studying anthropology, geography and psychology at university, he spent a decade with a large international consultancy, working on some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects ever built in Australia. He's seen the very best of what large organisations can create, and also the very worst.

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Over the ensuing decades, more attempts were made on the face, some successful and many unsuccessful. Many more climbers lost their lives. But the world had moved on. No longer did an ascent of the world's most dangerous mountain face garner the attention of the global spotlight. Not, that is, until 2008.

Early on the morning of Wednesday 13 February, leading Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck took the short train ride from his lakeside home town of Interlaken up to the small ski resort at Kleine Scheidegg at the foot of the Eiger. Most of the people on the train would have been dressed in thick, warm clothing, ready for a day of skiing: some light-hearted recreation, and nothing more. Indeed, Steck probably looked inconspicuous: rather than thick clothing and skis, he wore only lightweight attire and carried with him a tiny backpack, a thin climbing rope and a pair of short technical ice axes. Few, if any, people on the train that morning were aware of what Steck was about to do.

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