Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance

Business as usual is extinct. Disruption and social pressure are the new norm and change is inevitable for enterprises of all kindsbusinesses, governments, non-profits and social institutions. We've reached a turning point and it's time to evolve, or go the way of the dinosaurs.

Enterprise everywhere needs to act now to survive and find new ways to thrive in a changed world. But in an age of polarized debates on complex issues (such as fairness and climate change), how can leaders find a new way forward? How can enterprises re-invent themselves to make capitalism work better for more people?

Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides the roadmap enterprise builders and rebuilders need to rethink, redesign, and revitalize their organizations to remain relevant and sustainable in a new and very different future:

• Offers fresh approaches to organizational leadership and strategy, and highlights the personal leadership capabilities required to adapt to a new reality.
• Features inspiring stories of enterprise teams challenged to move beyond the status quo and create new value.
• Shares insights on how to tell your enterprise story in an authentic, engaging way.
• Guides enterprise teams in setting core organizational values and purpose, including ways to move from compliance to sustainability and, ultimately, stewardship.
• Shows how to increase your enterprise's engagement with a wider range of stakeholders, to understand the diverse viewpoints and generational context needed to boost innovation and resiliency.
• Includes three practical tools and user guidesA Measure of Integrity, The Enterprise Onion and Essential Elements of Leadershipto support your organization in designing a new path forward.

This book is for enterprising individuals and organizations committed to teaching the outmoded, struggling dinosaur to danceinto a bright, sustainable future.

"This work is a fantastic contribution to understanding organizational leadership and the imperative of adaptability. It is striking in its breadth: from sustainability to transformative innovation, to overcoming polarization, through to creating fairness and ultimately embracing stewardship as the highest form of leadership. These complex subjects are woven together with astonishing clarity. Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance is uniquely relevant in the context of modern-day challenges. It is also uniquely readable, and I predict will have far reach."
Mac Van Wielingen, Founder and Partner, ARC Financial Corp.

"In an age when everything seems uncertain and the world is so divided, Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance provides wonderful insights for any enterprise navigating the coming years. Kennedy-Glans uses her own personal stories to great effect, masterfully weaving the narratives of her experiences into practical lessons for the rest of us. The book is beautifully written, almost like a tender letter of encouragement between close friends, inspiring us all to find a better path...to learn to dance into the future!"

Todd Hirsch, Vice President and Chief Economist, ATB Financial

*"*Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance gives organizations of all kinds tools and insights to make a profound change towards integral sustainability. It shows that even large, unwieldy organizations can radically change in a gentle way. A book with an adaptive, entrepreneurial outlook, full of hope and opportunities."

Godelieve Spaas, Professor of New Economy, Avans University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, and Associate Director of the Pari Center, Italy

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