Books by Ron Immink
"Stop predicting" and 12 free books about books about strategy, innovation, intrapreneurship, AI, future trends, and leadership. Distilling the best thinking from hundreds of business books into actionable reads. Every topic is also available as a BookBuzz session, workshop, board briefing or keynote.
STOP PREDICTING: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming.
Most leaders are trying to predict the future.
That is the mistake.
In February 2023, Ron Immink began publishing #Mindcandy: strange technologies, weak signals, emerging behaviours and ideas that might — or might not — matter.
Three and a half years and more than 1,400 scenario prompts later, one conclusion stood out:
Most predictions were wrong. And that was exactly the point.
Because the real advantage is not knowing exactly what happens next. It is noticing change earlier, connecting signals others keep separate, challenging the assumptions underneath your strategy and acting before disruption becomes obvious.
STOP PREDICTING distils that practice into 13 lessons for leaders navigating AI, biotechnology, automation, organisational change and accelerating uncertainty.