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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“AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future” is a very interesting book. A combination of 10 stories (science fiction), followed by an interpretation. Using 2041 as the lens. The message is that things are going quicker, with a reference to 4 books to proof it. Science fiction and strategy Yuval Noah Harari has called science
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I am a huge fan of Peter Hinssen. But “The Uncertainty Principle” is not one of his best. Los zand. Loose sand as translation. Little coherence. A book about books From Asimov, to clio-dynamics, to Kondratiev waves, to Machiavelli, to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Taleb, Arie de Geus, general Stanley McChrystal, Peter Schwartz, Venice, In
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“The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world” is a fascinating book (and thought experiment). Currently, it is our civic duty to buy, buy, buy. Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one
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“Careless People” is a memoir that Meta does not want you to read. It is a nasty book. Not as a book but as a story of how nasty megalomaniacs run a large company without being accountable to anyone. A book about hubris. About corruption. Money and power corrupts How Meta manipulated elections, cooperates with
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