Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience

by Adam Markel

Overview

Learn how to thrive on uncertainty instead of merely managing it—from the resiliency expert and author of PIVOT

In his #1 bestselling guide to resilience, Pivot, business and personal development expert Adam Markel showed how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, in Change Proof, he shows how you can move beyond managing change to actively embracing it—and actually using times of uncertainty, crisis and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate positive growth.

Broken down into four parts, Change Proof explores the dynamics of change and provides a model of how to create the mindset that embraces it fully. Using case studies, current research and his years of experience as an expert in the integration of business and personal development, Markel uses real-life scenarios to illuminate the lessons in engaging chapters that include:

• The Myth of Balance
• The Resilience Bank Account
• Recovery vs. Burnout
• Even Michael Jordan Paused
• Get Out of Your Head
• A Little Failure Goes a Long Way
• Calm Is Contagious
• What Change-Proof Culture Can Do for You

You’ll learn how to choose change before it chooses you, what it takes (and what it means) to become truly change proof, and how to leverage your relationship to change. You’ll also find practical strategies in the change-proof model (pause, ask, choose). With a combination of mindset recalibration and specific, hands-on ways to make it work, Change Proof will help you take the art and science of resilience to the next level—and look forward to future and all the changes it will bring, with full confidence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264258987
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/22/2022
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Adam Markel is the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life. He is CEO of More Love Media, a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator for Fortune 500 companies, and a member of The Transformational Leadership Council and Association of Transformational Leaders.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Part I Choose Change Before It Choose You

Chapter 1 How Change Changes Things-and What to Do About It: Making Friends with Change 3

Chapter 2 Got Your Back: Lifeguard Lessons 19

Chapter 3 The Change-Proof Model: Pause, Ask, Choose 25

Part II Becoming Change Proof

Chapter 4 The Power of Choice: Leveraging Your Relationship to Change and Stress 37

Chapter 5 The Markers of Resilience 48

Chapter 6 The Myth of Balance 54

Chapter 7 Harmony 62

Chapter 8 The Resilience Bank Account 67

Chapter 9 Resilient Organizations 73

Chapter 10 Left Brain Resilience 80

Part III Change-Proof Hardware

Chapter 11 Recovery Versus Burnout 89

Chapter 12 Recover Before It's Too Late 97

Chapter 13 Even Michael Jordan Paused 103

Chapter 14 Outperforming Challenges 114

Chapter 15 Get out of Your Head 126

Chapter 16 Mindset Recalibration 134

Chapter 17 Disputing Irrational Beliefs 140

Chapter 18 A Little Failure Goes a Long Way 148

Part IV Change-Proof Software

Chapter 19 Happiness Doesn't Deliver Resilience 165

Chapter 20 Are You Emotionally Agile? 170

Chapter 21 The 3-4 Method 179

Chapter 22 Follow the Bubbles 185

Chapter 23 Calm Is Contagious 194

Chapter 24 Resilience Is a Choice 200

Chapter 25 The Myth of Authenticity 207

Chapter 26 "We'll Figure It Out" 214

Chapter 27 Self-Disruption Versus Stagnation: The Toothbrush Test 222

Chapter 28 What Change-Proof Culture Can Do for You 229

Chapter 29 Connecting with Others Connects You with You 235

Chapter 30 Breakthrough Without a Breakdown 243

Chapter 31 Leverage Uncertainty 248

Chapter 32 The Mystery of Death 253

Epilogue Imagining the Future 261

Resources for Building a Change-Proof Culture 272

Acknowledgments 276

Index 277