The BANI framework—Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible—is the new language. The age of chaos. Complete unpredictability. Very hard to base a strategy on. Or even decisions in real time. The constant butterfly effect. Predicting the future is pointless It is about adaptability, resilience, dexterity, ambidexterity and future fitness (my own programme). Using future-back thinking, narrative, leadership, […]
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Geopolitics is a factor more than ever. It could have serious consequences. You should read “The end of the world is just beginning” or “Leading through disruption”. Breakneck That is why I decided to pick up “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”. If the power is moving. You need to look East. This book
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Just finished reading “Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don’t Truly Want”. Full blog here. The human universe of desire. Mimetic desire. We are copycats by nature. We learn through imitation. It also shapes our identity. Based on an ecology of desire. Are we all just imitation machines? No. Mimetic desire is
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Ever since I met Jesse Shiah, the CEO and founder of AgilePoint, complexity has been on my radar. Hence, “Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being”. It turned out to be a very different book than expected. In fact, it is complete confirmation of my conclusion after researching and writing my
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Playing the long game. Building something that lasts, Creating Centurion companies. Centurion companies are 100-year-plus companies. Companies with enduring strength, tenacity, agility, resilience, and strategic longevity. In a world where half of all businesses fail within the first five years and where we have an average attention span of less than 10 seconds, “The Long
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A #bookin2days client is writing a book about risk. The book he recommended is “Risk: A User’s Guide” by General Stanley McChrystal. His “Team of teams” is a classic. Can you afford to lose Using examples such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cuban crisis, Blockbuster, war stories, special forces, Boston, and Napster. COVID, the Cuban
If you are into storytelling, AI, computers, leadership, logic, education, creativity, strategy, etc., you should pick up “Primal intelligence”. Primal intelligence is powered by the animal neuron, which evolved in the Cambrian oceans more than five hundred million years ago. Life was simple then. Eat and do not get eaten. Two systems in our brain
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I am an avid gamer (replaying Halo at the moment). The quality of gaming is taking leaps and bounds, particularly when you combine it with AR, VR, mixed reality, and other immersive technologies. It is starting to look very real. And AI is accelerating that process. I also recently finished reading “Our Next Reality“. Our
“The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How The World Lost its Mind” is a brilliant book if you are into system dynamics. It is a book about the industrialisation of decision-making. Building systems The Unaccountability Machine is about the biggest problem of modern industrial life – the problem of being
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“Signs: The secret language of the universe” is a book about being in touch with other dimensions. I think it is extremely relevant as it is part of access to natural intelligence. And you need to upgrade your natural intelligence to keep up with (and beat) AI. AI is not (yet?) connected to the universe/oneness/god.
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