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Keith Johnston Books

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Keith Johnston is a consultant and co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, focusing on adaptive leadership and organizational change.

Known for: Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

Books by Keith Johnston

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

leadership·10 min read

This book explores how leaders can navigate complexity and uncertainty by developing adaptive habits and mindsets. Drawing on adult development theory and systems thinking, the authors provide practical tools for leaders to thrive in rapidly changing environments.

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Facing Complexity: Why Old Leadership Habits No Longer Work

When we first begin a leadership journey, most of us learn to fix problems, plan ahead, and make decisions based on rational analysis. These are the hallmarks of traditional leadership training, inherited from eras when the world felt more predictable. In this book, we start by acknowledging that th...

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Growing the Leader: Adult Development and Meaning Making

If managing complexity requires new habits, then those habits must grow out of new ways of seeing the world. Here’s where adult development theory enters the picture. Jennifer and I draw on decades of research in constructive-developmental psychology to show that adults don’t simply accumulate knowl...

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Keith Johnston is a consultant and co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, focusing on adaptive leadership and organizational change.

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