Shane Cragun - Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

Praise for Reinvention

Ive seen firsthand in my work with top executives that the art of personal reinvention is more critical now than ever, yet leaders are left struggling with how to develop this vital capability. Cragun and Sweetman provide precisely what organizations and leaders needa simple model and process for making major change and renewal sustainable.

Cassandra Frangos, vice president, Global Executive Talent, Cisco Systems

Viewing leadership as a force multiplier in the Reinvention Formula pushes leaders to rethink what matters most in their work! Put simply, for anyone or any organization to reinvent demands exceptional leadership behind the wheel. The authors deliver a serious handbook for navigating the 21st century.

Hal Gregersen, PhD, executive director, MIT Leadership Center

As the head of an Asian asset management firm investing in companies all over ASEAN, this book sings to me. Worldwide disruption is something I deal with everyday, and great leaders understand disruption and even disrupt others. What an incredible handbook for the 21st-century leader to ensure you always stay at the head of the pack!

Shireen Muhiudeen, founder, Corston-Smith Asset Management Malaysia; Forbes List 50 Power Asian Businesswomen.

Reinvention is a terrific book that gives readers a complete picture of all of the elements needed for quantum change to happen and to stick. I especially appreciate the authors clear demonstration of how leadership is a force multiplier to every other element in their reinvention formulaat both the personal and organizational level. This contribution alone distinguishes it from other books on change. Filled with both insight and application, this engaging book delivers useful models and examples that are extremely relevant for our times. Well done!

Stephen M. R. Covey,New York Times best-selling author of The Speed of Trust and coauthor of Smart Trust

Reinvention provides a practical roadmap that helps build highly adaptive individuals and organizations positioned to thrive in todays turbulent environment. The authors masterfully integrate the latest research and thinking with their firsthand global consulting experience to create powerful new thought leadership in the areas of leadership and change. This is a must read for todays leaders.

Linda A. Hill, professor of business administration, faculty chair, Harvard Business School

Cragun and Sweetman have done an admirable job assembling key elements of strategic and leadership thinking into an extraordinarily innovative process and framework for making radical change happen successfully. Reading this book will push your leadership thinking and actions in exciting new directions.

Robert Galford, author of The Trusted Advisor, The Trusted Leader, Your Leadership Legacy, and Simple Sabotage

Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption is the go-to leadership book of the decade. Cragun and Sweetman play the role not so much as sages, but as trusted guides by your side, providing powerful and practical strategies and tools for immediate business application at the individual and organizational levels.

Ranjini Manian, founder and CEO, Global Adjustments India; author of Doing Business in India for Dummies

Reinvention is a must read for any founder or executive looking to build an organization that can thrive in the age of disruption. The authors challenge the reader to relook at their worldviews by citing contemporary examples of what makes todays organizations win or lose. The Reinvention Roadmap provides a highly actionable framework to apply design thinking to create sustainable change.

Mohit Garg, cofounder and chief revenue officer, MindTickle, ranked among the top 50 most-innovative companies globally by TiE50

Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption is a practical guide to the art of reinvention and accelerated change. It contains wisdom for each of us, offering vivid stories, frameworks, and tools with strong intellectual rigor. The authors challenge the reader to accept the necessity of reinvention in todays VUCA world. This is a worthy read for every leader.

Patricia W. Longshore, vice president, Global Educator Network, Duke Corporate Education

In Reinvention, Kate and Shane give us a brand new platform and new way of thinking to confront challenges of todays global economy. The result of their book is striking in its ability to help us make better sense of our VUCA world. And on those inevitable days when our forecasts and predictive tools fail us, Kate and Shane challenge us to continue working the problem with world-class strategies and tools.

Denis Sullivan, VP Workforce and Leadership Development, Verizon Wireless (retired)

This book suggests that big changes are coming and provides heartfelt reasons on why to respond proactively before youre run over. I enjoyed the grounded storytelling and engaging metaphors. Best of all, I am now certain that the internal rate of change within myself and my organization must be faster than the external rate of change around us. There is no neutral place. It is a powerful wake-up call that it is time to change myself!

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president, Center for Talent Innovation; author of Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor and Executive Presence

Disruption: Either its happening to you, or you are causing it. In the book Reinvention, Cragun and Sweetman describe, from their own experience and through a set of winning stories, how organizational leaders can plot a safe path through the disrupted landscape of the modern organization. Its a compelling, practical read.

Robert M. Burnside, chief learning officer, Ketchum Inc.

With incredible acuity, Reinvention proves the value of preemptive change in the face of unceasing disruption. It provides well-founded analysis and depth on howand whyproactivity, not reactivity, will be the defining feature of successful companys in todays landscape. The authors timely work makes it easy, through practical solutions and fresh concepts, to demystify the culture of change. It is a must-read for anyone looking to keep their company ahead of the curve.

Spencer Harrison, PhD, professor of business, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

What a tremendously important piece of workreframing the way we must understand ourselves, our passions, and our companies as we nosedive deeper into 21st-century models of leadership. Reinvention is the key. Ready, aim, and reinvent with this book by your bedside table.

Marcia Jaffe, founder and president, Bali Institute for Global Renewal

The authors demonstrate a clear understanding of disappearing market borders, international regulatory frameworks, transforming multinationals, and an entirely new array of global risks, opportunities, and disruptions. Cragun and Sweetman remind us that many of the assumptions that defined our economies and us at the turn of the Millennium no longer apply. We need Reinvention.

Redha Behbehani, executive director, Global Center, the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University

As change becomes the constant, adaptability is the number-one key to the future success of business. Reinvention teaches us all how to transform as leaders and companies to navigate the changing generational mindset to achieve breakthrough results and grow into the future. Anyone in a leadership position today or who aspires to be in one in the future should read this book.

Erica Dhawan, author of Get Big Things Done; CEO of Cotential; former Legatum Scholar, MIT