How Quicksilver can help...
Quicksilver shows why the world has always suffered from "fundamental, severe, and incurable unpredictability." And it shows why digital technology makes this truer every day. In today's quicksilver environment, people incapable of freeing themselves from the "sentence of history"—habits of mind molded by the past—are not merely incapable of optimum performance, they can't avoid the ruts that take them from one crisis to the next. Failure to change our way of thinking can lock us into our own Groundhog Day, in which we keeping creating results we don't want.

In quicksilver-time, Quicksilver's practices will get you out of the ruts of old habits and onto a path of infinite possibility. You will learn to notice how you notice. Based on that skill, you will become naturally skeptical of your default thinking. That will give you a chance to think again, and then to invite others to think again with you. 

The great thing about leading a Quicksilver life is that you really can't get it "wrong." The practices outlined in Quicksilver automatically yield powerful solo and shared reflection that creates new worlds of our choosing. It's an explorer's life, and it makes of the Quicksilver leader a kind of scout who sees what others have missed.

"Quicksilver is a must read for people who want to break out
of the ordinary and become transformational leaders—
authentic, accountable, courageous and intentional."
—KAREN PUCKETT, COO, CenturyLink

For Leadership Teams

Teams of leaders who embrace Quicksilver practices become a scouting party. They pursue a delicate balance between their "reflexive," or default, selves and the "reflective," or more fully aware, selves.

The reflexive self is a thing of beastly wonder. It keeps us alive in emergencies—but it also wreaks havoc in our affairs by triggering disruptive behaviors that we don't even recognize. The reflective self is a thing of wonder, too, and it enables infinitely greater responsiveness to life's unpredictability.

Result: much greater creativity than the camouflaged panic that passes for much of our "normal" behavior.

A Quicksilver leadership team consists of individuals committed to the pursuit of reflective relationships among themselves. This is perhaps the most exquisite balancing act in the human behavioral repertoire. Because of the individual and collective power of the human mind, leadership teams that are committed to the book's practices enjoy a powerful shared responsiveness that simply dwarfs the capability of non-reflective groups.

What Quicksilver—the book—is really about is the possibility of a world created by relationships among reflective people. Humanity has never known such a world. Leaders and managers who would lead others toward this exhilarating frontier must set the example by constantly journeying toward it within themselves. Then, through their teams, organizations, and customer relations, they can create an irresistible direction for others to follow.

"My bookshelves are fully stocked with 28 years' worth of accumulated leadership books—all claiming to be the know-all guide to what makes a great leader. However, Michael O'Brien's Quicksilver is now the only book that I keep at my reading table and recommend to every business owner. The book shows how the brain and body work symbiotically... and how to apply what you've learnt with powerful exercises.
You will find yourself reading Dr. O'Brien's empowering words time and time again.
—JAN SMITH, Founder, Center for Authentic Leadership

For Entire Organizations

Led by Quicksilver leaders, a Quicksilver workforce is simply a new kind of organizational creature, capable of creating what Dr. O'Brien calls "generative truth." Generative truth is not accessible by individuals. It takes two or more people to discover. The larger the group, the greater the potential to create "possibilities beyond the limits of things as they now seem, beyond our current perceptions and beliefs."

Bottom line: a Quicksilver organization is capable of performance—resilience, breakthrough, efficiency—that is otherwise essentially impossible.   

"Let's face it. Very few business and leadership books... have the reputation for being page-turners. Michael O'Brien's new book is quite different. I could not put it down. This is a book you will want not for your shelf but for the top of your desk. I guarantee some return on investment after reading this."
—Carson F. Dye, FACHE, Partner Witt/Kieffer

For Customers

The digital revolution has created an information revolution that has changed the fundamental reality of every organization. No longer can companies govern public opinion. Today, thanks to the microchip, consumers themselves control information, not media gatekeepers or corporate spin meisters.

The best policy today is to enter into an open relationship with customers. Clear communication makes it much easier for organizations to understand, and meet, customer needs.

The gift of Quicksilver as a customer premium sends a powerful marketplace signal about an organization's intent to hold itself to the highest standards of performance and accountability. It also enlists customers in a dynamic common cause of meeting their needs.

Hint: for preferred customers, a copy of Quicksilver personally signed by you makes a meaningful statement of appreciation.

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