Becoming Antifragile - 2nd Edition by Williams (Paperback)

About the Book

Disruption is rampant. Resilience won't cut it. Bouncing back isn't enough; it's exhausting and it's burning us out. Many leaders struggle. But with this book, you won't.

Book Synopsis

Are You Ready to Move Beyond Resilience?

The level of disruption as we start this new decade is like nothing we've experienced before. Resilience simply won't cut it in the face of such uncertainty. 'Bouncing back' isn't enough. It's exhausting and it's burning us out.

We need something that sustains us in the long term.

We need to benefit rather than break from our experiences.

We need to turn disruption and uncertainty to our advantage.

We need to Become Antifragile.

Using evidence from neuroscience, psychology and lived leadership experience, this book offers leaders practical guiding principles to:

• Embrace change rather than resist it
• Lean into challenge rather than avoid it
• Learn to thrive when times get tough.

The future is more uncertain than ever. Many leaders are struggling.

With this book, you won't be one of them.

Review Quotes

Dr Paige Williams combines intellect with insight to help us understand how to move beyond resilience to become antifragile. She gives us the science and guides us through the practices that help us both professionally and personally. This is a must-read for leaders navigating complex change.

Professor Lea Waters, PhD, organisational psychologist, researcher and author of the Strength Switch.

Never have we more needed the ability to embody the qualities of 'antifragile'. Paige's work is a critical tool for leaders in all industries looking to build strength, longevity and a new level of adaptability to their teams. It also holds an important place at a personal level, where we all need new perspectives on how to navigate in uncertain times and reimagine a new world of work and life.

Skye Tipler, Director, Mkt. Communications

Dr Paige Williams has that extremely rare ability, to take big and complex ideas, 'antifragility' and not only understand them, but help you to use them in your personal and professional lives, at a time in history when we so need this. But Paige goes further, not only how to use the idea as a tool, but how to become antifragile - inspiring you to your own preparedness and potentiality. The ROBUST principles she proposes are relevant to multiple contexts in your life, at home, at work, in the best of times and the worst of times."

Professor Lindsay Oades, Director, Centre for Positive Psychology University of Melbourne. Wellbeing Public Policy Strategist

If our life is defined by the choices we make this might be one of the most important we choose to make: to see adversity and suffering as a place for growth and opportunity. This book explores that choice brilliantly!

Matt Church, Leadership Expert, Founder, Thought Leaders

At a time when businesses - large and small - are under more pressure than ever, Becoming Antifragile offers leaders practical principles to help us navigate the challenges and get better from it. I found Paige's work easy to read and translate into my own leadership practice, and I've used it with my team and seen the difference it's made to their energy, attitude and mindset. This is a must-read for leaders who know that there must be something beyond resilience; there is: Antifragile...and this book explains how to get there.

Bridget Blake, Director Partner Engagement & Development, Specsavers ANZ