Too Smart to Fail?: A counterintuitive approach to staying relevant in business and life [9781923748903]

Overview

Thrive in the future world of work – stop trying to predict it!

How can a company with the smartest people in the world and access to all the resources they could ever need become irrelevant? If it can happen to Nokia, Kodak and Blockbuster, it can certainly happen to Apple, Google or Netflix. Who's next? In this book, alternative futurist, investor and entrepreneur, Gus Balbontin offers an alternative explanation for why this phenomenon keeps happening, and why it’s so difficult to avoid.

Gus’s explanation is counterintuitive; the future is arriving at our doorstep faster than we are able to let go of the present. Instead of pulling the future towards us, we are busy trying to hold on to increasingly irrelevant presents, creating a false sense of certainty with an obvious expiry date. Balbontin explores the power of engineering novelty into our lives, and focusing less on implementation and more on explementation (the opposite). If you can't let go of your wardrobe, it is unlikely you and your business will be able to let go of the process, the system, the product or the culture that is holding them back.

The world is becoming more and more unpredictable, and we all need to learn to succeed through uncertainty. Too Smart to Fail? offers an alternative view of the problem and an unexpected solution: embrace the discomfort of incompetence to increase your tolerance to change. Based in part on the author's own experience as Executive Director, leading the restructure that kept travel guide book publisher Lonely Planet afloat, this innovative and entertaining book shares a proven approach to avoiding irrelevance.

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