The new book

Navigating From the Future:
A Primer for Sustainable Transformation

Charlie's First Book


 What is Sustainable Transformation?
  
    For Change and Innovation to persist, we must follow practices that:
  • sustain momentum
  • produce breakthroughs when things get stuck
  • minimize gaps & valleys
  • bridge technical credibility & behavioral change


Here are the tools leaders need
to successfully take personal responsibility for
causing and sustaining transformation.


         This pragmatic self-help book tells the truth about leadership in the face of today’s challenges.  While good ideas, good products, and strong intentions are important, they are not enough.  Rather, organizations and projects with the most available energy in focus prevail. This is an accessible domain with proven methods and approaches which increase and sustain the necessary energetic focus to produce success. 

        Dr. Smith illustrates how to manage the issues of starting up an organization or project, and how to build alliances, applicable to mergers and acquisitions.  He provides useful tools that anyone can use for managing complex change and the challenges of innovation, performance, sustainability, and morale.

   





We must combine Noble Purpose with Business Purpose 

       Only through integrating both a noble purpose and a material purpose can we  
 produce sustainable transformation and ongoing success.  Only a small percentage of the population will really take on the level of personal responsibility necessary to produce transformational change.  Dr. Smith is aimed at empowering that special group, which he calls, “Navigators.”



An Energy-Based Approach

      This book illustrates a leadership paradigm for managing organizations that shifts away from our typical object-based approach.  Making the energetic domain accessible creates powerful new distinctions for what organization is and could be. 

      Smith identifies actions that really make a difference to the quality of present consciousness -- bringing energy into focus in ways that prevail over adversity, competition, loss of momentum, or even shrinking resources.


Only for those Determined to Cause Transformation

      This approach does NOT oversimplify the problems.  We must respect the complexity of political, social, psychological, moral, and organizational obstacles
that have daily impact on our projects and ambitions. 
     
   
   While this book gives leaders the tools to successfully take personal responsibility
for causing and sustaining transformation in the face of those obstacles, at the same time Smith acknowledges that, while many say they want Transformation -- at work, in government, at home and in the world -- few summon the necessary courage and attention to actually become transformational leaders.

       In this book he tells the truth about what it really takes, and shows us the pathways for winning.