Contextual Intelligence: How Thinking in 3D Can Help Resolve Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity.

This book offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight to navigate through complexity. Every organization and every person faces rapid change and complexity. Contextual intelligence - understanding fully the context i...

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Main Author Kutz, Matthew
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects
Business.
Organization.
Planning.
Operations research.
Decision making.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319449982
9783319449975
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Note to the Reader: Palgrave Edition; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; Part 1: Origins of the Contextual Intelligence Model; 2: What Is Contextual Intelligence?; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 2; Contextual Intelligence in a Nutshell; Framing the Definition; Understanding Context; Understanding Intelligence; The Rest of the Story; Contextual Intelligence Mental Models; 3D Thinking; Contextual Intelligence Behaviors; 3: Using Contextual Intelligence at Work and in Life; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 3.
  • What Was James Missing?References; 4: Putting the Contextual Intelligence Model Together; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 4; Comfort with Disruption; Comfort with Complexity; Comfort with Ambiguity; Comfort with Change; Comfort with People; Research on Contextual Intelligence; My Own Research on Contextual Intelligence; The 12 Contextual Intelligence Behaviors; Hindsight Behaviors; Constructive Use of Influence; Critical Thinker; Influencer; Consensus Builder; Foresight Behaviors; Intentional Leadership; Diagnoses Context; Change Agent; Future-Minded.
  • Insight Behaviors Embraces Diverse Ideas; Multicultural Leader; Communitarian; Mission-Minded; Part 1 Case Study Questions; References; Part 2: Introduction to Part 2: Mental Models of Contextual Intelligence; 5: Embracing Complexity; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 5; A New Explanation of Chaos; Strange Attractors; Phase Transition; Double-Loop Learning; Complexity ; Complicated Systems; Complex Systems; One More (Funny) Story About Complexity; References; 6: Reframing Experience; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 6; Reframing the Importance of Experience.
  • The Synchronicity Phenomenon Synchronicity at Work; 7: Leveraging Learning; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 7; Leveraging Learning; Analogical Reasoning; Wisdom; Firsthand and Vicarious Experience; Vicarious Experience; Firsthand Experience; Applying Vicarious and Firsthand Experience; Innovation; Incongruity; Changes in Perception, Mood, and Meaning; New Knowledge; Part 2 Case Study Questions; References; Part 3: Introduction to Part 3: 3D Thinking Framework; 8: 3D Thinking: A Different Orientation to Time; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 8; 3D Thinking.
  • 3D Aspects of Context Hindsight; Foresight; Insight; Managing 3D Thinking; Time Warping; Time Chunking; References; 9: Decision-Making in a Variable-Rich Context; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 9; Adaptability; Contextual Ethos; Leadership as a Social Process; Transitioning Between Contexts; References; 10: Implementing Contextual Intelligence; Key Take-Aways to Look for in Chapter 10; Strategies for Implementing Contextual Intelligence; Experience Banking; Becoming Co-lingual; The Contextual Map; Questions Contextually Intelligent People Ask; References.

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