Brilliant Doubt
Harnessing uncertainty to lead with impact

By (author) Jenny Williams

ISBN13: 9781788606455

Imprint: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 11/11/2025

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Description
We need leaders who doubt. No playbook exists for the complexity, challenges and choices leaders are dealing with, so why do they – and we – expect certainty? Certainty does not guarantee success or the avoidance of failure. What if leaders can create better results by harnessing doubt effectively? Doubt is complex: it can both paralyze us and propel us forward. In Brilliant Doubt, Jenny Williams challenges how we think about doubt and reveals its power. She examines the role of self-doubt and external doubts – our own and others’ – shining a light on how leaders can work with doubt to inform their decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results. Her insightful and practical approach will change your relationship with doubt forever, and show you how to harness uncertainty to inform decision-making, and ultimately to achieve better results. Jenny Williams (MCC) is a top Executive and Systemic Team Coach who has lectured at Cambridge University on leadership, entrepreneurship and creativity. She has spent thousands of hours working with exceptional clients who doubt, showing them how to leverage the power of doubt as a catalyst for clarity, creativity and confidence.
Introduction Section 1: Don’t Doubt Doubt Chapter 1: Why the business world needs doubt more than ever before The crisis of certainty Culture: the breeding ground of doubt What if we can’t succeed without doubt Power in doubt for the leader, the team and the organisation Chapter 2: What is doubt? * Inner doubt and the imposter * External doubt * Professional Doubt Section 2: Leadership Doubt Chapter 3: Doubt is a process Chapter 4: Processing the doubt demons Chapter 5: The Professional Doubt process: The question from doubt Do the ‘do’ in doubt Challenge Collaboration Creativity Changing Calculation Decide and drive Section 3: Team Doubt Chapter 6: Surfacing the doubts Chapter 7: Sharing the doubts Chapter 8: Solutionising doubts Section 4: The Future of Doubt Chapter 9: Using doubt to create future leaders Recruiting doubtful leaders Using doubt to unlock future dreams Chapter 10: Why the future needs doubt? Doubt and AI Conclusion End Pages About Jenny Williams Acknowledgements References
  • Management: leadership & motivation
  • Management decision making
  • General (US: Trade)
Height:216
Width:140
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