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Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change
“An actionable framework for driving change.” ―Adam Grant Will the next rogue wave sink your ship―or will you choose to profit from it? 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 500 innovation executive, advisor, and entrepreneur, Brill delivers a practical action plan 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. Resilience is your new strategy for growth.
368 pages, Hardcover
Published August 13, 2021
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September 18, 2021
Book Review: Rogue Waves - Rogue Waves is a PLAYBOOK to deal with Volatility, Radical Change, and Find the Opportunities
In Rogue Waves, author Jonathan Brill makes a compelling case that leaders can and should do better amid uncertainty and chaos.
If you are telling yourself or hear leaders around you say,
"we've never faced anything like this before" Rogue Waves is for you.
Jonathan's work is an actionable playbook of navigating uncertainty and full of great stories and examples of rare events that teach us what to do as the Rogue Waves continue. His metaphors and real-life examples are memorable, shareable, and create momentum for action individually and, more importantly, to activate our teams around us.
Examples -
He unpacks
Shane Battier's impactful basketball career and its application to leading business.
Toyota's supply chain lessons learned in the 2011 Tsunami.
Jonathan, only one complaint,
when are you going to get the audio version released?
I look forward to taking the audio version with me on my long walks.
If you want to get a quick sense of Rogue Waves and Jonathan's thinking, check out his interview on Newsweek's Better with Dorie Clark.
https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/u...
In Rogue Waves, author Jonathan Brill makes a compelling case that leaders can and should do better amid uncertainty and chaos.
If you are telling yourself or hear leaders around you say,
"we've never faced anything like this before" Rogue Waves is for you.
Jonathan's work is an actionable playbook of navigating uncertainty and full of great stories and examples of rare events that teach us what to do as the Rogue Waves continue. His metaphors and real-life examples are memorable, shareable, and create momentum for action individually and, more importantly, to activate our teams around us.
Examples -
He unpacks
Shane Battier's impactful basketball career and its application to leading business.
Toyota's supply chain lessons learned in the 2011 Tsunami.
Jonathan, only one complaint,
when are you going to get the audio version released?
I look forward to taking the audio version with me on my long walks.
If you want to get a quick sense of Rogue Waves and Jonathan's thinking, check out his interview on Newsweek's Better with Dorie Clark.
https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/u...
February 1, 2023
It’s rare that I set a book down and then immediately want to pick it up again, but that’s the case with Rogue Waves. Brill has done a splendid- nearly overwhelming- job of presenting big ideas, frameworks, case studies, and to-do lists for tackling massive uncertainty in business. I want to hand copies of this book to so many people in my network!
December 12, 2022
Being better prepared for unknown
October 12, 2021
Rogue Waves is a masterwork on turning disruption into opportunity
Highly recommend. Brill makes a compelling argument that the biggest threat your business faces, right now
is rogue waves — the increasingly frequent disruptions caused by the collision of individually manageable social, economic and technological trends. He shows how the performance of companies of all sizes improves when they consider the role of resilience in their growth strategy and persuasively argues that it is a statistical certainty your organization is more likely to face disruption than to be the disruptor. This isn’t a bad thing, as Brill shows, “more billionaires are minted in financial downturns than upturns.” The issue isn’t upheaval, it’s whether you can, “flip your kayak faster than your competition” to take advantage of it. So why do organizations—likely your organization—ignore this obvious fact. Most books of this sort ask the question but skirt around the answer.
I appreciated how Brill provided dozens of practical, step-by-step tools and frameworks for making change in your organization. These frameworks are applicable whether you are a manager or the CEO.
As the title promises, you’ll walk away knowing how to survive and profit from radical change by turning disruption into opportunity. Great read.
Highly recommend. Brill makes a compelling argument that the biggest threat your business faces, right now
is rogue waves — the increasingly frequent disruptions caused by the collision of individually manageable social, economic and technological trends. He shows how the performance of companies of all sizes improves when they consider the role of resilience in their growth strategy and persuasively argues that it is a statistical certainty your organization is more likely to face disruption than to be the disruptor. This isn’t a bad thing, as Brill shows, “more billionaires are minted in financial downturns than upturns.” The issue isn’t upheaval, it’s whether you can, “flip your kayak faster than your competition” to take advantage of it. So why do organizations—likely your organization—ignore this obvious fact. Most books of this sort ask the question but skirt around the answer.
I appreciated how Brill provided dozens of practical, step-by-step tools and frameworks for making change in your organization. These frameworks are applicable whether you are a manager or the CEO.
As the title promises, you’ll walk away knowing how to survive and profit from radical change by turning disruption into opportunity. Great read.
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