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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, but when we get fixated on what’s now, we ignore what’s next.
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.
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.
Fast Company Profiles Jonathan Brill
An excerpt from the Fast Company article "3 unexpected benefits to shifting your mindset about time" by Dorie Clark: A longer time frame lets you accomplish more meaningful goals My friend Jonathan Brill, an innovation expert who’s the author of the...
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...
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
More Armor Doesn’t Make You Stronger
When a rogue wave hits, stronger defenses won’t protect you, but flexibility will. Learn how. https://vimeo.com/588828197?share=copy
Flip Your Kayak Faster
How do you win when a rogue wave knocks you down? Find out how Amazon and Zoom do it. https://vimeo.com/588833286
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
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.