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Corporate Board Member: Rethinking Risk After The Pandemic
One thing we’ve learned from Covid is that big companies are still run by flesh-and-blood human beings, not artificially intelligent data-crunchers. Despite frequent warnings about potential pandemics, most companies and CEOs did little to actually prepare for the...
SHRM: Taking Teams From Good to Great
In business, team players go unrecognized much of the time, yet they are the secret weapon that makes the difference between great players and great teams. You can often identify them by the questions they ask, instead of the questions they answer. They are constantly...
Forbes: 3 Questions To Future-Proof Your Business
High impact, low probability events occur more frequently than you think.
DBR Interviews Jonathan Brill
Translated excerpt from the original Korean article "Great surfers are prepared for the big waves of the future. Managing unpredictable risks is the lesson of the pandemic." by Lee Kyu-yeol: Jonathan Brill, a global futurist at HP (Hewlett-Packard) who predicted...
Newsweek LinkedIn Live Interview with Dorie Clark
As part of Newsweek's series, "Better," Dorie Clark interviews Jonathan live on LinkedIn about "How to Adapt to Exponential Change." https://www.youtube.com/live/e54R0NWjA6Y?si=nB5Tl7PYTr1aN2tW
Bloomberg Radio Interviews Jonathan
Tim Stenovec of Bloomberg Businessweek interviews Jonathan about his book “Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change.” https://open.spotify.com/episode/4LMNh3Ce3ipwxCTah6Th9D?si=11a52e97f300464d
Innovation and Leadership with Jess Larsen
Amazing Conversation about the future of economics, industrial and security policy with #1 Innovation Podcaster, Jess Larsen. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MVEhpScTpDFeJNEwMHpX4?si=qgaYPOLmSH6f6GXJI3eq0Q...
M.E.T.A.L. Interview with Ken Rutkowski
https://vimeo.com/623035844?share=copy
People and Projects with Andy Kaufman
Listen to Jonathan Brill in conversation with Andy Kaufman on the People and Projects Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gmdeZnVIhjyBYnKT2yfDS?si=0c5232ca65d545f7
The Future Just Keeps On Coming
Why do we plan for the future assuming that it will look like today. More importantly, how do we get around this organizational trap? https://vimeo.com/588827344
The Cookbook Problem
When everything changes, your response can’t remain the same. Learn why we make this mistake and what to do about it. https://vimeo.com/588835995
How Threat Becomes Opportunity
https://vimeo.com/571832082/b5e311581b
Resilience is your new strategy for growth.
This must-read survival guide provides the predictive tools you need to take advantage of randomness, turn chaos into profit, and set your company on the course for long-term success.
At this moment, rogue waves are forming under your business. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends―the undercurrents of radical, systemic change―are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. If your competitor can’t ride out the next wave and you can, you win.
In Rogue Waves, Jonathan Brill―a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision making under uncertainty―shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.
Drawing on years of experience as a Fortune 50 innovation executive, advisor, and entrepreneur, Brill delivers a practical action plan to:
- Identify and capitalize on the 10 economic, technological, and social trends that will collide to reshape your business
- Turn sudden threats into outsized opportunities
- Create a culture of entrepreneurship and experimentation
- Build and scale leadership skills and processes to supercharge your company’s agility and adaptability
An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.
A profound contribution to the science of decision making and the psychology of leadership.
Rogue Waves’ powerful tools have repeatedly helped us get out in front of change.