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Management
Emergent
Ignite Purpose, Transform Culture, Make Change Stick
Stephen Scott Johnson
ISBN: 978-0-7303-3681-5 | Aug 2017 | 240PP
Navigating today’s complex workplace demands extraordinary acumen, intuition
and agility. Demand for greater values alignment, autonomy, and individual
empowerment fuelled by technology and greater interdependencies, create
extraordinary challenges for organisations. Power is shifting in the world and a
giant spotlight is shining on lack of corporate transparency of politics and power,
forcing companies to engage with stakeholders in more meaningful ways.
Consequently, traditional ‘command-and-control’ business models are failing and
culture and engagement have become critical issues. This paradigm shift from
hierarchies to lean networks and ‘flatter’ organisations exposes a huge skills
deficit for agile collaboration and authentic engagement. Most fail in their
attempts to adapt.
Emergent is a response to this context providing an essential set of skills and tools
to ignite purpose and equip individuals and organisations for the emergent
future. Key pain points include skills deficit, lack of reach/market penetration,
change risk and fatigue, lack of values alignment that results in failed stakeholder
engagement, and inability to transform. Importantly, it’s more than just a ‘DIY
guide to change’. The underlying premise is to empower organisations to
diagnose change risk, providing a unique governance framework and blueprint for
conscious culture transformation.
About the Author
Stephen Scott Johnson is an expert in brand and culture transformation with
20 years experience in global business. He has innate flair for systems that ignite
purpose and engagement and he has worked with hundreds of organisations and
individuals to transform their impact. His work is featured in BRW, Fast Company,
Huffington Post, TechCrunch, National Marketing Mag AUS/NZ, MICENET, PRWeb,
Mumbrella and The Age.