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From a leading crisis management expert, a breakthrough book about
performance under pressure that will change the way you think about
stress Upshift 1. a movement of a variable to a higher level e.g.
of performance, growth, frequency. When we experience too much
stress, we often feel like shutting down and escaping the source.
Neurologists call this 'downshifting', where your thinking shifts
from the cognitive and creative areas in the brain to the domains
associated with survival. But with too little stress, we become
disengaged and apathetic. So what happens in the middle zone - when
we experience what psychologists call positive stress - and how can
we best make use of it? In Upshift, international thought leader
Ben Ramalingam takes readers on an epic journey from early humans'
survival of the ice age to present times in our inescapable,
pernicious and ever-shifting digital landscape. You will hear
remarkable stories from a vast range of backgrounds, including
scientists, gamers, performers and artists, athletes and health
professionals and everyday people, all of whom carved new routes
around perceived barriers using their powers to upshift. Whether
discussing how city commuters navigate train cancellations to how
astronauts deal with life-threatening incidents, Ramalingam
presents a fascinating argument that we all have the power to
innovate, whether or not we identify ourselves as creative or
extraordinary. In a runaway world that is an engine for perpetual
crisis, Upshift is not only an essential toolkit for survival, it
is a roadmap for positive, and potentially life-changing
transformation and influence. You don't have to shut down - you can
upshift.
From a leading crisis management expert, a breakthrough book about
performance under pressure that will change the way you think about
stress Upshift 1. a movement of a variable to a higher level e.g.
of performance, growth, frequency. When we experience too much
stress, we often feel like shutting down and escaping the source.
Neurologists call this 'downshifting', where your thinking shifts
from the cognitive and creative areas in the brain to the domains
associated with survival. But with too little stress, we become
disengaged and apathetic. So what happens in the middle zone - when
we experience what psychologists call positive stress - and how can
we best make use of it? In Upshift, international thought leader
Ben Ramalingam takes readers on an epic journey from early humans'
survival of the ice age to present times in our inescapable,
pernicious and ever-shifting digital landscape. You will hear
remarkable stories from a vast range of backgrounds, including
scientists, gamers, performers and artists, athletes and health
professionals and everyday people, all of whom carved new routes
around perceived barriers using their powers to upshift. Whether
discussing how city commuters navigate train cancellations to how
astronauts deal with life-threatening incidents, Ramalingam
presents a fascinating argument that we all have the power to
innovate, whether or not we identify ourselves as creative or
extraordinary. In a runaway world that is an engine for perpetual
crisis, Upshift is not only an essential toolkit for survival, it
is a roadmap for positive, and potentially life-changing
transformation and influence. You don't have to shut down - you can
upshift.
Many agree that the foreign aid system - which today involves
virtually every nation on earth - needs drastic change. But there
is much conflict as to what should be done. In Aid on the Edge of
Chaos, Ben Ramalingam argues that what is most needed is the
creative and innovative transformation of how aid works. Foreign
aid today is dominated by linear, mechanistic ideas that emerged
from early twentieth century industry, and are ill-suited to the
world we face today. The problems and systems aid agencies deal
with on a daily basis have more in common with ecosystems than
machines: they are interconnected, diverse, and dynamic; they
cannot be just simply re-engineered or fixed. Outside of aid,
social scientists, economists, business leaders, and policy makers
have started applying innovative and scientific approaches to such
problems, informed by ideas from the 'new science' of complex
adaptive systems. Inspired by these efforts, aid practitioners and
researchers have started experimenting with such approaches in
their own work. This book showcases the experiences, insights, and
often remarkable results of innovative thinkers and practitioners
who are working to bring these approaches into the mainstream of
aid. From transforming child malnutrition to rethinking economic
growth, from building peace to reversing desertification, from
rural Vietnam to urban Kenya, the ideas of complex systems thinking
are starting to be used to make foreign aid more relevant, more
appropriate, and more catalytic. Aid on the Edge of Chaos argues
that such ideas and approaches should play a vital part of the
transformation of aid. Aid should move from being an imperfect
post-World War II global resource transfer system, to a new form of
global cooperation that is truly fit for the twenty-first century.
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