The Journey of Not Knowing - by Julie Benezet (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A story about a leadership team that has to embrace the scariness and opportunities of the unknown to win a large project critical to their business.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Journey of Not Knowing offers a fast paced, entertaining read that gets to the heart of a critical state in today's business climate and society overall: the constantly changing, ambiguous 21st Century and the uncharted waters ahead. This book will inspire leaders of any size organization to come to grips with the scariness of the unknown. It advances a new approach to leadership that leverages the discomfort of the new as a source of inspiration rather than a deterrent to building a better future. It received a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Medal for Business & Economics and an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal.</p><p>Written by former Amazon executive, coach and lawyer Julie Benezet, the book combines storytelling, business experience and human psychology to create a roadmap through the ambiguity of building something better in the context of the realities of humans in organizational life.</p><p>The book tells a story of a day in the life at Arrow, Inc., a fictional company. It follows the defended behaviors throughout that day of its eight very recognizable leadership team members as they work first to avoid and then finally to solve the mystery of why a client fired them. The reward of the discovery is a critical piece of new business and substantial personal growth. To get there, each of team members must face their past, present and future. The memorable characters in the book are persons with whom the readers may cringingly identify. The book creates a framework them to confront their own resistance to change, and tools to start them on their way toward pursuing new possibilities for their lives once they can confront and embrace the scariness of the unknown.</p><p>The author opens the book with a description of how her experience as an early Amazon executive led to her beliefs about leadership and the unknown. It ends with a primer on the Journey of Not Knowing leadership model, using the Arrow story to illustrate its principles.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Benezet shows very simply how we become trapped by our hooks into endless dreary cycles of limitation, and how we can liberate ourselves into the vast opportunities that await when we risk stepping beyond the known." - Susan Cannon, PhD, co-author of The Way of the Mysterial Woman: Upgrading How You Live, Love, and Lead "A fun read that takes lessons from Amazon's early days and uses a fictional business story to teach us how to be better leaders and teammates. Benezet does a wonderful job in focusing us on the unknowns literally right in front of us-our teams and ourselves. A page-turner that doesn't rely on murder or explosions, at least not literally!" -Asuka Nakahara, Associate Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton "Benezet captures the spirit of a real leader . . . one who has the courage to take on the unknown with a balance of analytical brilliance and drive for making things better when there is no roadmap. " -- Gail Ayers, PhD, CEO CREW Network "Through the vehicle of a well-crafted and entertaining story, The Journey of Not Knowing provides a great teaching tool for both established and emerging leaders. The book skillfully raises awareness of how defensive behaviors against the unknown can get in the way of their success as leaders, and how they might overcome them to achieve strategic results. The lessons are reinforced by a story from the author's experiences as an early Amazon executive and a primer of the Journey principles that follows the story. I highly recommend this great read." -- Patricia Langer, EVP, Human Resources at NBC Universal, Inc. "The Journey of Not Knowing combines the many years of business world experience of its author with astute observation of human behavior. Using a story format to describe familiar and widespread defensive organizational behaviors, Benezet intimately describes the evolution of a leadership team from resistance to engagement in order to solve a critical business problem. The Journey model included at the back of the book explains how they got there. The book is fresh, fun and inspiring." --Cindy Aden, Librarian, Former Amazonian and current Washington State Librarian ". . . Benezet offers a management handbook geared toward the unconventional in the modern business world . . . [She] makes crystalline sense; for example, she writes relatively early on that it's more important than ever for managers to know themselves-to know, as she puts it, "who you are and for what you stand" in a world of shifting expectations and constantly looming unknowns. This idea is related to the "core drivers" of her book, concentrated in the "Core Four" components . . . that deal with "the relationship between leadership and the unknown." . . . In her explorations of these components, Benezet is at her most authoritative. A largely involving story-oriented breakdown of how to chart a steady managerial course in uncharted territory." -- Kirkus Reviews<br>
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