| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Praise ; About the authors ; Title page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Authors' Preface ; From Murph ; From Boo ; PART A: INTRODUCING FLEX ; 1: The Origins of Flex ; Flex in the U.S. ; Murph's story; Flex in Australia ; Boo's story; 2: What is Flex? ; Flex gets things done ; Balancing thought and action, at speed ; 3: The Flex Framework for Action ; The engine ; The cockpit ; The wings ; Breakout: Night Scramble ; 4: The Flex Way of Thinking ; Breakout: A fighter pilot mindset only goes so far ; Engaging people in their own mission |
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Beating complexity with a clear, collaborative process Beating the speed of change with a bias to action ; 5: The Flex Team ; Who is Flex for? ; Creating a Flex team ; The respectful truth of a Flex team ; When to lead, when to follow, when to collaborate ; PART B: THE FLEX ENGINE: GETTING THINGS DONE ; 6: Flex Planning ; Flex planning -- fast, yet considered ; Breakout: Apollo 13: A two-minute planning lesson ; Flex plans -- simple, yet dynamic ; Flex plans -- direct, yet empowering ; Not your typical plan ; 7: The six-step mission planning process ; The leader's intent |
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Step 1: Set the mission objective Step 2: Identify mission threats ; Step 3: Identify resources to draw on ; Step 4: Evaluate lessons learned ; Step 5: Assign a course of action ; Step 6: Confirm contingency plans ; 8: Brief (Putting your plan into action) ; The last rounds of planning ; The brief is the mission ; The leader's brief ; The right briefing microclimate ; B-R-I-E-F the plan ; A brief's last words ; 9 Execute (Keeping people to the plan) ; How people lose focus ; Keeping people to the plan ; Breakout: Rules for checklists |
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10 X-Gaps and execution rhythm (Keeping the plan to reality) Why have X-Gap meetings? ; Set frequent X-Gaps ; X-Gaps are brief and to the point ; Breakout: Flex is agile ; 11 The Debrief ; Learning and culture ; When to debrief ; Practicing STEALTH ; Just debrief ; PART C: THE FLEX COCKPIT AND WINGS ; 12: Situational awareness ; Line-of-sight alignment ; Systems thinking ; Building situational awareness ; 13: Flex in organizations ; Breakout: The Maple Flag ; Setting a high-definition (HD) destination ; Missions to reach the HD destination ; Strategic missions to create your system |
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Can you own and execute your strategy? 14: The Flex Wings ; The layers of standards and learning ; Standards ; Training: Your best at the ready ; Building and tapping situational standards ; 15: Kickstarting Flex ; Recapping Flex ; Recapping what you're aiming for ; Our pilots (acknowledgements) ; Notes ; Index |
| Summary |
Learn the simple techniques the air force has honed for 60 years to get your work done faster and more successfully, with more precision, just like some of the world's most successful companies have done to dramatically improve their businesses |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Teams in the workplace.
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Teams in the workplace
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boucousis, Christian
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| ISBN |
1952534801 |
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9781952534805 |
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