Rapid Reculturing

How can we lead for success in the age of AI? An answer to the leadership crisis facing today’s organizations Rapid Reculturing: Transforming Organizations at Pace and Scale takes on one of the biggest issues facing today’s business world. To thrive in an AI-powered world, organizations need an entirely new approach. In this book, award-winning authors Alex Bailey and Kerri O’Neill offer a fresh, science-backed model for building sustainable high performance in the AI era. With traditional change models breaking down under the pressures of AI, diversity, five generations at work, and burnout rates skyrocketing, leaders urgently need a new playbook. If you’re looking for a shortcut to creating a culture that works in the Intelligence Age, this book is for you. It will ignite you to shed the practices that no longer serve us and respond to the demand for more human, adaptive leadership for a complex world. Lead culture change to support high performance in the complex, fast-paced “Intelligence Age” Identify and replace leadership practices that are no longer effective in today’s world Become more adaptive, so you and your organization can thrive amid ongoing change Tackle employee burnout and high turnover, boosting productivity without sacrificing the people who make it happen This book inspires a mindset shift in business leaders, HR professionals, and transformation consultants. With Re-Culturing Your Organization at Pace and Scale, you can ride the tide of AI-driven change and come out on top.

Foreword xv Introduction 1 PART I Why Rapid Reculturing? 15 Chapter 1 Facing the Truth About Where We Are 21 Chapter 2 Why Organizations Are Failing to Shape Culture 31 Chapter 3 What Reculturing Could Do for Us 47 PART II Rapid Reculturing Explained 63 Chapter 4 Introducing Three Zones and Four Drivers 65 Chapter 5 Reculturing Driver 1: Activating Shared Purpose 71 Chapter 6 Reculturing Driver 2: Mindsets as a New Approach to Defining Culture 93 Chapter 7 Reculturing Driver 3: Use Energy to Assess Cultural Health 115 Chapter 8 Reculturing Driver 4: Human Connection in Any Setting 133 PART III How to Reculture at Pace and Scale 153 Chapter 9 Armoring 155 Chapter 10 Awareness (Building) 171 Chapter 11 Alliances 193 Chapter 12 Acceleration 217 Chapter 13 Attention 233 Conclusion: Rapid Reculturing at Pace and Scale 247 References 251 Acknowledgments 263 About the Authors 265 Index 269