The Framing of the Book Using Statements of Selected Leaders

This article is a summary of the results of 14 interviews with significant leaders, drawing on their opinions and insights on the character of change nowadays compared with the past; on the urgent need of all types of organizations to transform now, the reasons why they need to go on this journey, how to do so and in which direction to move; on the general applicability of the Travelling Organization concept (and of the Three-Pillar Model), developed in the previous Three-Pillar books (“Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times – Navigating Your Company Successfully Through the 21st Century Business World” by Wollmann et al., 2020, and “Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times – Design and Implementation Using the 3-P Model” by Wollmann et al., 2021) and how to tailor them for the needs of the individual journey; on concrete ideas on leadership, decision-making, capability development on journeys through unknown areas; on the overwhelming role of trust and on their recommendations and takeaways for their peers and readers of the book. During the interviews, a significant number of aspects that condition the organizations coping with change were touched upon, discussed, and documented. As an overall conclusion, it became clear and very transparent that designing, performing, and realizing transformations is a “burning platform” for all types of organizations these days and therefore of special interest. For this, it is important to understand why organizations urgently need to transform, what the triggers and key focusses of transformations are, how transformations should be designed and started, which aspects are crucial for success—and for failure—and what one might learn from others’ lessons learned. The interviews were started before the focus and title of this book was finally decided. The interview results were a key contribution to frame, focus and title the book as, proceeding, like this we could ascertain that the book covers a need of high interest.