Chaos Inc.

<p><b>Change and innovation are the cornerstones of dynamic and modern business.<br><br>Or so we are told.</b><br><br>The mergers the constant re-organisations the new corporate values - or anything delivered by McKinsey consultants from the top down - are all incredibly disruptive and unnerving for people. Ex-Cisco and Deloitte top leadership development executive Ashley Goodall reveals why change isn't always a good thing in the long run. In the short-term and for people on the ground it has profound human costs like unnerving losses of identity and teams confusion and uncertainty.<br><br>CHAOS INC. offers an alternative. Goodall argues that leaders need to provide the stability security and agency employees need to do their best work.<br><br>The solutions involve creating a genuine environment for autonomy zooming in and protecting teams as well as embracing vivid markers of identity and shared history. These are all practical strategies that leaders can implement to successfully navigate volatile and uncertain conditions which are sure to not abate.</p> <p>Ashley Goodall is a leadership expert and author who has spent his career in large global organisations in senior HR positions. Most recently an executive at Cisco he spent fourteen years at Deloitte as the Chief Learning Officer for Leadership and Professional Development. Ashley has written or been featured in <i>The New York Times</i> <i>The Washington Post</i> <i>Forbes</i> <i>Business Insider</i><i> Inc</i>. and <i>The Harvard Business Review</i>.<br>Originally from the UK he holds a BA in Music from Oxford and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is based in New Jersey.</p> Change is neither good nor bad—and much of it is essential. But that doesn’t make it easy. In his brilliantly thought-provoking <i>The Problem with Change</i> Ashley Goodall argues persuasively that a big part of the job of leaders is to create stability—to dampen the disruptive nature of change and to allow their teams to perform.