Praise for The New Leadership Literacies
“For leaders of the future everywhere, this is a vitally important book to prepare us all for a world where all can thrive.”
—Chris Ernst, Global Head, Leadership and Organization Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and coauthor of Boundary Spanning Leadership
“Bob Johansen is out in front of us again. In this book, Bob gives fair warning and great developmental guidance for those of us who aspire to lead into the future.”
—Bob Anderson, CEO, and Bill Adams, Chairman and Chief Development Officer, The Leadership Circle, and authors of Mastering Leadership
“This book will be an important point of reference for what we all need to take into account as we try to find our place in the perpetually changing new world, and it will be especially relevant to those who will try to lead us in that world.”
—Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of Humble Inquiry and Humble Consulting
“I oversee talent for the San Francisco Giants. Bob’s book provides new literacies to help discover and nurture the next championship talent to be team leaders.”
—John Barr, Vice President and Assistant General Manager, San Francisco Giants
“To understand the gift that is Bob Johansen and The New Leadership Literacies, imagine twenty top CEOs in a workshop sharing their volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous angst. Foresight yields to insight, which portends action. Hope is renewed. It is powerful and humbling. Years after Bob spoke to our roundtable, his concepts are still discussed at every meeting.”
—Brenda C. Curiel, Managing Director, CCI, Inc.
“I will be using this book in my Give.org work, and I urge others striving to produce social good to do so as well.”
—H. Art Taylor, President and CEO, BBB Wise Giving Alliance
“Now, as executive director of FRED Leadership, I plan to use Bob and The New Leadership Literacies to further the thinking on this critical topic with top leadership/executive development programs.”
—David Small, Executive Director, FRED Leadership
“Bob’s new book once again pushes me out of my comfort zone—but it helps me imagine what it will take to thrive in a future of extreme disruption.”
—Carmen M. Allison, Vice President, Talent, Pottery Barn Brands and Global Talent Development, Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
“This book offers thoughtful and practical literacies for leading rather than reacting. Our graduate students as well as our program partners in faith communities, social innovation, and values-based companies will learn ways to turn fear and uncertainty into vision and opportunity.”
—David Vásquez-Levy, President, Pacific School of Religion
“The New Leadership Literacies is the perfect deep dive into preparing to thrive in this increasingly uncertain world.”
—Kathy Mandato, Vice President, Human Resources, Snap, Inc.
“Bob is a master in making sense of what leaders will need to survive disruptive blasts from the future. We are aggressively using Bob’s new literacies for immersive executive development.”
—Jack McCarthy, Director, Executive Development Roundtable, and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
“I will personally use The New Leadership Literacies in my work at CCL to guide decisions about research we will undertake and how our solutions will develop leaders who are “future literate.”
—Jennifer W. Martineau, Senior Vice President, Research, Evaluation, and Societal Advancement, Center for Creative Leadership
“Bob’s leadership literacies are a natural and welcomed complement to our programs, in which we immerse executives in the leadership lessons from West Point and the US Army.”
—Karen Kuhla, Executive Director, Thayer Leader Development Group
“In my role with the Foresight Council, I will be using the ideas in this book to guide corporate foresight leaders as they help shape the future.”
—Rick Holman, Director, Foresight Council, and past leader, GM Global Foresight Network
“Bob Johansen invites each generation to live on the edge of their competencies to read the future backward and grasp hold of the signs that beckon us forward. He invites us to transcend what we don’t know with honesty. In so doing, he knows we will create curious leaders and curious communities who will resist the urge to freak out and instead leapfrog into our new awaiting future. Though we all face a dilemma-ridden world, Johansen offers The New Leadership Literacies to collaboratively hack the outskirts of a hope that awaits us.”
—C. Andrew Doyle, IX Episcopal Bishop, Diocese of Texas
“Bob’s work has been critical to developing our leaders to think in new ways and support an innovative culture. We are using The New Leadership Literacies to help develop visionary leadership.”
—Leah Toney Podratz, Director, Organization Development, Cox Enterprises