The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption
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| TITLE | Reframing and Navigating Disruption | Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty | Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World | Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation |
| VOLUME | Volume I - FOUNDATIONS |
Volume II - FRAMEWORKS |
Volume III - YOUR LIFE |
Volume IV - YOUR BUSINESS |
| FOCUS | How to make sense of our complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world | Practical frameworks to help you and your business stay relevant in the 21st century | What does constant change and uncertainty mean to you as an individual? | What does our unpredictable, complex, and systemic world mean for you as a business? |
| BESTSELLER CATEGORIES |
Future Studies | Business Planning & Forecasting, Future Studies | Career & Self Help, Business Education | Green Business & Sustainability, Strategic Management & Forecasting |
| DOWNLOAD | Volume I eBook | Volume II eBook | Volume III eBook | Volume IV eBook |
| ORDER | Volume I Print | Volume II Print | Volume III Print | Volume IV Print |
| ARTICLES | Learn More Vol. I | Learn More Vol. II | Learn More Vol. III | Learn More Vol. IV |
Bulk Orders & Curriculum Support
We provide discounted pricing and tailored offerings for significant orders of The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption, including using our Guidebooks for academic or executive programs.
If you wish to discuss bulk orders or custom curriculum support, please reach out to: info@disruptivefutures.org
Sample the first chapter:
“Your Introduction to Disruption: Why This Guidebook, Today”
Four Volumes, Multiple Disciplines
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is a four-Volume Collection published by the Disruptive Futures Institute LLC in San Francisco:
Volume I available to order
VOLUME I - FOUNDATIONS
Reframing and Navigating Disruption
How to make sense of our complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world.
Volume I reframes systemic disruption. After a detailed examination of the constants and drivers of disruption, we learn to navigate disruption by thinking in multiple time horizons, as well as the implications and opportunities stemming from emerging technologies, AI, and the future of decision-making. We then explore “Info-ruption” as a radical change in how information is interpreted, used, and misused in this new era of cyber insecurity. Finally, in the face of existential and climate risks, we expand on how to mitigate and build resilience for even the most extreme eventualities.
Volume II available to order
Practical frameworks to help you and your business stay relevant in the 21st century.
Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
VOLUME II - FRAMEWORKS
Volume II provides frameworks to ensure that we go beyond resilience or adaptability to actually thrive on disruption and uncertainty. Our AAA Framework offers the tools and mindset to build Antifragile foundations, develop the capabilities to be Anticipatory, and use emergent and strategic Agility to bridge the short-term with long-term decision-making. This framework builds on the tactical insights from our 6 i’s toolkit: Intuition, Inspiration, Imagination, Improvisation, Invention, Impossible. Volume II also includes a valuable reference workbook (Futures Frameworks & Foresight Fundamentals).
Volume III available to order
Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
VOLUME III - YOUR LIFE
What does constant change and uncertainty mean to you as an individual?
Volume III focuses on using agency to define your purpose and seek meaning. We share tactics on how to create your personal futures, with practical applications, examples and canvasses throughout. We cover a broad set of topics including the relationship between innovation and failure, education, work and money, and your economic life. How do we remain economically relevant when anything that can be automated, cognified, decentralized, digitized, disintermediated, or virtualized will be? Remaining relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop for which you can learn the moves. Volume III also includes two workbooks (Beta Your Life: Create Your Personal Future and Education: Prepare Educators & Learners for Disruptive Futures).
Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
VOLUME IV - YOUR BUSINESS
What does our unpredictable, complex, and systemic world mean for you as a business?
Volume IV focuses on business, strategy, and governance systems for our deeply uncertain world. How should organizations and entrepreneurs approach ecosystem innovation through Business Models-as-a-System (BMaaS)? Throughout, we discuss systemic disruption as a springboard for sustainable value creation; anticipatory governance to reconcile multistakeholder strategy for leadership and boards; sustainability and Greenaissance as the ultimate disruptive opportunity; digital disruption as sectors converge and emerge; space, which is no longer a place but an investment theme; and the shifting centers of gravity in Asia and Africa. Volume IV also includes workbooks with a rich set of case studies and tools on innovation to invent the future and leadership to reinvent governance.
What Will You Learn?
Throughout this accessible guide, the authors connect Futures Intelligence & Climate Intelligence, Antifragility & Foresight Strategy, Complexity & Systems Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies, Innovation & Failure, Design Thinking & Science Fiction, as well as Philosophy & Zen Buddhism.
Understanding the world depends on our perspectives. The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption widens and deepens the aperture to shift mindsets and change the narrative structure around uncertainty.
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is unique because it educates, guides, and empowers you to explore the one question that others may not focus on: “So What?”
We cut through the formulaic and oft-hyped “future of” rhetoric to provide practical, tactical strategies for approaching our rapidly changing and uncertain world.
How We Answer the “So What?” Questions
Meet our friendly mascot, the Octopus: the ultimate representative for thriving on disruption. It has navigated our changing world for the last 296 million years.
So what are the next-order implications of our increasingly unpredictable and complex world?
So what do these changes mean? How do these changes affect me, whether I am an individual, organization, entrepreneur, investor, policymaker, educator, or student?
So what should I do to prepare for, leverage, and drive the systemic transformations ahead? How do I develop effective strategies and gain further perspectives?
So what are the best curated resources I can use for further guidance and experiential continued learning?