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Forbes: Create Strategic Luck In 2023
As the new year kicks off, we all want to know what the future holds. Futurist pundits are sharing their trends lists. While they grab our attention, they don’t provide actual insight. Really useful insight, the kind that games luck, requires understanding your...
HBR China: Top Business Trends for 2023
There is so much that goes on at the surface level of the news we see about China. Zero-Covid The post Zero-Covid world Spy balloons The Hu Jintao hijinx at the Party Congress. When we get fixated on what’s now and we ignore what's next. The reality is that we can...
Forbes: AI Is Creating A Post-Truth World
What is truth? I thought that was a great question to ask ChatGPT, the new AI project from OpenAI. For a moment, I was amazed and then I was terrified.
Autodesk Interviews Jonathan About Preparing for AI on Your Org Chart
Reposted from Autodesk 8 Future-Proofing Business Strategies From Jonathan Brill Changes in technology and global conditions are accelerating. Futurist Jonathan Brill offers 8 future-proofing business strategies to help AEC firms thrive. By Sarah Jones The Industrial...
HBR China Interviews Jonathan Brill
HBR China interviews me for the release of ROGUE WAVES in China. In it, they kindly named me, “The world’s leading transformation architect.” https://vimeo.com/714752475/f15e49f2a8
Sirius XM Wharton Business Radio’s Leadership in Action
Jonathan Brill joins Mike Useem, Anne Greenhalgh and Jeff Klein of the Wharton Leadership Program for a discussion on leading through uncertainty. Originally aired on Wharton Business Radio's Leadership in Action program on Sirius XM Channel 132.
Building a More Resilient Strategy at Monitor
Monitor Podcast 66: Big Picture Thinking and Practical Skill Building for More Resilient Strategy Can you know more about the future by learning new skills and zooming out to view the big picture through a new frame? How about by asking more questions? Author Jonathan...
Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath
Jonathan discusses his book Rogue Waves in a virtual Friday Fireside Chat with Rita McGrath. https://youtu.be/BX0H_s3tTpo
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...
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.