How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader
Overview
The new leadership skill: making time an ally, not an enemy.
"To be most effective, leaders must move beyond time management to time
mastery. Time managers are reliant on clocks and calendars; time masters
develop an intuitive sense of timing. Time managers see time as a fixed,
rigid constant; time masters view it as relative and malleable. Time
masters have what John Clemens and Scott Dalrymple call the critical
skill of ""temporal intelligence.""
Based on more than four years of research, Time Mastery includes
dozens of examples of leaders whose temporal intelligence has helped
them achieve business breakthroughs at organizations such as GE, 3M,
Staples, and Dell. Readers will learn to develop six time-mastery
behaviors, including how to: treat time as a continuous ""flow"" of peak
experience * set the rhythm of their organization * look beyond the
moment and encourage long-term, strategic thinking * and use time as an
energizing principle that drives improvement. With intriguing examples
from sports, science, history, and the performing arts, as well as
business, Time Mastery takes a fascinating, in-depth look at a
surprising new leadership skill."
About the Author
John K. Clemens (Oneonta, NY) is Professor of Management at Hartwick
College and founder of the The Hartwick Humanities in Management
Institute. His previous books include
The Classic Touch: Lessons in
Leadership from Homer to Hemingway. Scott Dalrymple (Oneonta, NY) is
an Assistant Professor of Management at Hartwick and CEO of Dalrymple
Consulting, specializing in corporate strategy and business
communications.
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Table of Contents
"Introduction: Beyond Time Management
Chapter 1
Leadership Time Travel: Past, Present, and Future
The Long Now
Tense Times
Past Tense
Present Tense
Future Tense
Temporal Golden Mean
Time to Think About the Future
Profiting From the Past, Present, and Future
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Chapter 2
Going with the Flow
Enemies of Continuity
Continuity in Art and Music
From Causal Time to Flow Time
Applying Continuity
Cooperating to Compete
Infinite Games
The Perils of Monochronicity
Choose Your Sport
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Chapter 3
Time's Amazing Elasticity
Seeing With a Sailor's Eye
The Lost Ten Minutes
Einstein's Pretty Girl and the Department of Motor Vehicles
Size Matters: Speeding Up by Scaling Down
The Sims
Slow Towns
The Revenge of the Type Bs
When Time Stops
Slow-Motion Leadership
Fashionably Late
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Chapter 4
Rhythm: The Beat Is Everything
The Rhythm Is in You
The Power of Entrainment
Applying Entrainment
Getting It Together
The King's Clock
Leaders as Zeitgebers
New Rhythms at 3M
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Chapter 5
It's Greek to Me: Chronos and Kairos
So How Does This Help Me Next Tuesday?
Kairotic Clocks
Kairos at Work
Contrarians
Chasing Kairos: Intel Corporation and Strategic Inflection Points
Deadlines
Ode to Chronos
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Chapter 6
Time as Energizer
Hell in a Handbasket
Time Management
When Time Is Not Money
Open Systems
Chaos Theory, Fireflies, and Economics
The Virtue of Doing Nothing
An Angel in the Room
Seeding the Future
How You Can Apply Temporal Intelligence
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index"
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