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Silicon Valley Investors Club: Future Proofing Your Investment
Leaders often assume that rules of competition will stay the same, even though they know the future is a volatile place. This is true of mature companies with rigid approaches to planning, but it’s also true of nimble startups.
At the end of the day, nothing is more valuable than survival. If you invest in innovative companies, and you want to see outsized performance, you should consider whether that innovation creates resilience for you, your investment and its customers. In this guide, I’ll show you how to identify innovations that will extract value, no matter what the future brings.
Forbes: Five Steps To See Your Business Future
Leaders must project confidence. Their teams look to them for vision and stability, especially in volatile times like these. But confidence without a thorough understanding of what’s to come has another name: hubris. You don’t want to have the confidence of the...
SCMP: In a world of rogue waves, US-China contest is really about survival
Pundits frame US-China competition in economic, military and diplomatic terms. But it’s actually about something far more important.
The Economist: The Future of China
“[Rogue Waves is] An important book for managers.” Wu Chen Managing Director, The Economist Global Business Review
San Francisco Business Times Profile of Jonathan Brill
Reprinted from the San Francisco Business Times HP Global Futurist Peers Into Our Uncertain Future by Jim Gardner As we struggle to make sense of an uncertain future, who better to talk to than someone who helps some of the biggest names in the world economy make...
National Geographic Features “Why Flavors Work” Software
Excerpted from the National Geographic article "Software Creates New Flavors, Some Not for the Squeamish" by Rachel A. Becker Jonathan Brill, founder of Special Projects Agency, an innovation and design consulting firm based in Sausalito, California, is trying to...
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TED features Jonathan Brill on the Future of Automation in the Workforce
TED & Zebra Technologies sat down with Jonathan Brill and other business leaders shaping innovation to discuss how we can use technology to empower humans, not replace them when our world is becoming increasingly automated....
Singularity University: How Tech is Changing the Way We Work
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Accelerating Innovation
At HP, Megatrends are the foundation of our investment thesis. They provide a guide for how we think about research, product and operational decisions. I’m proud to be a part of a company that thinks bigger. Learn how Megatrends will impact your business. Videos like...
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.