Reseña del libro "INFLECTION POINT (en Inglés)"
The most consequential leadership decisions are rarely made with certainty. They are made at inflection points.When conditions are stable, leadership can look straightforward. But when systems begin to shift-when information conflicts, time compresses, risks compound, and familiar assumptions stop working-leaders face a different challenge. They must act before they can know exactly what will happen next.Inflection Point: Leader Analytics in Action introduces a new way to understand leadership in those moments.Rather than treating leadership as a collection of traits, competencies, or styles, Dr. Sharon Link Wyer examines leadership at the decision level. At an inflection point, every consequential choice can alter a system's trajectory: amplifying or containing risk, preserving or closing future options, distributing harm, and changing what becomes possible next.At the center of the book is Leader Analytics, an original framework for examining how leaders exercise judgment under uncertainty. Drawing inspiration from performance analytics, systems thinking, decision science, ethics, and organizational leadership, the framework asks questions traditional leadership measures often miss: Did the leader exercise sound judgment given what was knowable at the time?Did the decision preserve options or prematurely close them?Did leadership reduce risk-or quietly allow it to accumulate?What futures did the decision make more or less likely?Through concepts including Decision On-Base Percentage (OBP), Strategic Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), Expected Leadership Value (ELV), context weighting, ensemble thinking, and probability stewardship, Inflection Point offers a vocabulary for examining leadership without collapsing complex human judgment into a simplistic score.But this is not a book about turning leadership over to algorithms.Quite the opposite.Forecasts can inform decisions. Dashboards can reveal patterns. Artificial intelligence can identify possibilities humans might overlook. But models do not act, bear consequences, or assume moral responsibility. Leaders do. Analytics should therefore sharpen human judgment-not replace it.The book moves from theory into application, providing practical tools including the Inflection Point Decision Audit, Crisis Phase Mapping Worksheet, Leader Analytics Glossary, and ELV/OBP Conceptual Scorecard. These tools help leaders examine consequential decisions before, during, and after moments of disruption.Written for leaders, consultants, executives, scholars, educators, and anyone responsible for consequential decisions in complex systems, Inflection Point offers a different way to think about leadership in an age increasingly dominated by data, prediction, and AI.Leadership is not knowing what will happen next.It is understanding that what you decide now helps determine what becomes possible next-and remaining responsible for what unfolds.
