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Forbes: Is Your Business Prepared To Profit From The Next Disruption?
Our world is becoming more volatile, not less. That’s why it’s so important to increase employee awareness of the external environment and its impact on your operations.
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...
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
Inc. Profiles Jonathan Brill
As the world moves faster and becomes more connected, one leadership style is best for innovating.
Adam Mendler Interviews Jonathan Brill
Reposted from Adam Mendler's Blog Just Start: Interview with Futurist Jonathan Brill By Adam Mendler I recently went one on one with Jonathan Brill. Jonathan was a senior leader and the Global Futurist at HP and is the author of the new book Rogue Waves: Future-Proof...
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 Deep Dive with Philip McKenzie
Philip and I had an amazing conversation on The Deep Dive podcast about the universal skills for turning threats into opportunity as a farmer, a teenager, an equities trader, an R&D leader, a lemming and a CEO....
Product Mastery Now
Listen as Jonathan discusses how product managers can help to future-proof organizations on the Product Mastery Now podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4e6AS88syf2ofxnQUYDuAR?si=14ec94ce34bb4df1
Why David and Goliath are the Same!
https://vimeo.com/571831892/62117fa75b
When It Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
https://vimeo.com/571831683/d5932d57fa
Singularity University: Chile’s Post–COVID Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8pTrnGFFNc

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.