Rowland - Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change

1. Chapter 04
2. Chapter 05
3. Chapter 06
4. Chapter 07

1. Chapter 03
2. Chapter 08
3. Chapter 09
4. Chapter 11

Still Moving is groundbreaking in this time of increasing complexity and ongoing disruption. Rowlands work in the field is 10 years ahead of the industry and she speaks into our deepest need right now. This book is an essential companion for CEOs and anyone leading large, complex change and those who advise them. Let the book speak to you, consume the wisdom, and put that wisdom into practice. You, your family, customers, employees, business and the planet will all be the benefactors.

Bill Adams, CEO, The Leadership Circle and Full Circle Group, coauthor of Mastering Leadership and The Whole Systems Approach

It is now commonplace to talk about the constancy of change in the business world as a backdrop for the latest best approach to its leadership. This book sets its ambitions far higher: the increasingly intractable and bewildering dilemmas we all see and face, not only in business, but related to issues such as migration, climate change, inequality and terrorism.

Rowland meets this burning need for a profoundly different and more effective leadership with real insight into what this needs to look like no magic formulas but deep exploration of our own role as leaders. These insights need to be heard and adopted in all walks of life.

Ruth Cairnie, Nonexecutive Director, RollsRoyce Holdings, Associated British Foods and Keller Group

Deborah Rowland has written a truly groundbreaking book. Based on sound research, she shows for the first time that success in leading largescale change depends not only on what a leader does but, crucially, on how they are on their inner states and capacities.

How strange that it has taken so long for us to wake up to the fact that the inner states and capacities of leaders really matter. And how wonderful that Deborah has so convincingly been able to open our eyes to that deep truth.

Michael Chaskalson, Professor of Practice, Ashridge Business School

More traditional ways of managing change in this fast, disruptive and increasingly uncertain world are no longer enough. Transformational change requires purposeful leadership with a deep awareness of self and the needs of others.

Still Moving provides the perfect blend of a rigorous analytical study coupled with powerful reallife stories of successful transformation. If you are about to lead change, this is a must have companion.

Steven Cooper, CEO, Personal Banking and Executive Director, Barclays Bank plc

I read this book because I have long admired Deborahs innate gift to look well past the obvious and to illuminate the parts of leadership and change simply not visible to most of us. With Still Moving, she provides a series of insights into one of the great ironies of leadership in this decade: the most effective way to lead through the dynamic, distracting minefields of chaos we face in our lives is to nurture the inner space that enables us to lead from a place of profound mindfulness. Still Moving provides the proof of concept, the motivation and the instruction to begin a leaders most important journey.

Kevin Cox, Chief Human Resources Officer, American Express Company

A powerful exposition on the need to first look within ourselves to find the leadership skills required for our fast changing and dislocated world, Still Moving is a welcome and muchneeded contribution on how to lead for positive social change in an era when leaders need to be in a continual state of adaptation.

Within this world Rowland convincingly shows us why a thoughtful, mindful and purposedriven approach to leading change is the one most likely to endure.

Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

Still Moving is a compelling and practical guide to the leadership of change. By sharing her selfreflection and brave journey into her past, Deborah inspires us all to become more conscious and embracing of our own life narratives a key underpinning of her framework to help us become more effective leaders and agents of change in our organisations and in society today.

Ann Sarnoff, President, BBC Worldwide North America

An inspiring, practical and provocative take on the power of mindful leadership to reshape our world

Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT and cofounder of the Presencing Institute

Still Moving is an inspiring, practical and wellresearched treatise on how to navigate change in this fastmoving world. It is a wake up call to more mindful leadership, and Rowlands writing style took my own mind on a heartfelt and enriching journey. For all leaders of any change, this book could be your most valuable guide.

Mimi Tang, Founder and CEO, Wings Share (and former President, Kering Asia Pacific)

In Still Moving Deborah Rowland comprehensively describes how fundamental change can only be achieved when leaders combine their own capacity for mindfulness with business transformation. What's more, she pulled this off in my company, where she successfully guided us through a large, complex transformation she has been in the field, and felt it and shaped it. I can think of no one with greater passion, wisdom and authority on the subject and who, at the same time, exposes her own vulnerability and learning.

Peter Terium, CEO, RWE (now innogy)

Rowland's book Still Moving is an exciting breakthrough in thinking on leading change and is an invaluable guide for anyone leading major change in business, or in society, today. She uniquely has recognised that the massive scope and rapid speed of today's changes require new approaches, and that leaders must focus on how change is led not just on what change needs to be implemented. And with change a constant part of todays business landscape, Rowland convincingly sets out the four key inner capacities needed to enhance a leader's effectiveness in such a fastpaced world.

Mike White, former Chairman and CEO, DirecTV

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This edition first published 2017
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