The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None

  • 7h 36m 18s
  • Julie Benezet
  • Blackstone Audio, Inc. dba Blackstone Publishing
  • 2017

The Journey of Not Knowing is a fast-paced, entertaining book that gets to the heart of a critical state in today’s business climate and society overall: the constantly changing, ambiguous twenty-first century and the uncharted waters ahead. This book will inspire leaders of any size organization to come to grips with the scariness of the unknown while it advances a new approach to leadership that leverages the discomfort of the new as a powerful source of inspiration rather than a deterrent to building a better future.

Written by former Amazon executive, coach, and lawyer, Julie Benezet, the book combines storytelling, business experience, and human psychology to create a roadmap through the ambiguity of building something better in the context of the realities of humans in organizational life.

In this Audiobook

  • Navigating the New
  • Early Amazon: A Few Liner Notes
  • It Started in Fernley
  • Then Came Germany
  • The Epiphany (or Rather, the Beginning Thereof)
  • The First Step into the Unknown: Finding Our Way Through the Fog
  • The Second Step into the Unknown: Finding Our Way into the Hearts and Minds of Amazon.de
  • The Broader Landscape of Unknowns in 1999: The Map with No Fixed Points … Anywhere
  • Returning to the Second Step into the Unknown: Breaking Through to Amazon.de
  • Back into the Fog: The Pursuit of Property
  • Building a (Large) Fulfillment Center before Christmas, and a Team to Get There
  • The Defining Leadership Moment: Part 1—The Stranger on the Phone
  • The Defining Leadership Moment: Part 2—Accessing My Core
  • The Aftermath
  • What I Learned about Leadership and the Unknown One Night in January 1999
  • What Leadership (Really) is
  • What Leadership is Not
  • The Labyrinth of Leadership
  • The Acceleration of the Unknown for Leaders in the 21st Century
  • How the Unknown Shows Up in the Daily Life of a Leader
  • The Two Sources of the Unknown
  • What is the Journey of Not Knowing?
  • Why Bother Taking the Journey?
  • Arrow, Inc.
  • Cast of Characters
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1 - One Day in March, Early Morning—The Dance around the Unknown
  • Chapter 2 - Midday, Navigating the Unknown—Uncovering Hooks
  • Chapter 3 - Midafternoon, Navigating the Unknown—Discovering Drivers
  • Chapter 4 - Late Afternoon—The Arrow Leadership Team Unites
  • Epilogue
  • The Core Four
  • Finding My Core Driver
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