Get There Early - BK Business Book by Bob Johansen

GET THERE EARLY
Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present
by Bob Johansen

Buy Book at Berrett-Koehler Publishers - http://tinyurl.com/5wroz4

Visit Author's Website - http://www.iftf.org/


Bob Johansen shares techniques the Institute for the Future has been refining for nearly forty years to help leaders navigate what, borrowing a term from the Army War College, he calls the VUCA world: a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. As the institute's ten-year forecast makes clear, leaders now face fewer problems with neat solutions and more dilemmas: recurring, complex, messy, and puzzling situations. Get There Early lays out the institute's three-step Foresight to Insight to Action Cycle that will allow readers to sense, make sense of, and win with dilemmas. Johansen offers specific techniques, ranging from storytelling to simulation gaming, as well as real-world examples to help readers turn the VUCA world on its head through creative use of vision, understanding, clarity, and agility. This book offers hope for leaders facing the constant tension—a dilemma in itself—between judging too soon and deciding too late.

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Education

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• Business
• Forecasting
• Futurist
• Strategic
• Planning
• Longterm
• Plan
• Managment
• VUCA
• Leadership
• Institute
• for
• the
• Future
• Bob
• Johansen

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Institute for the Future is probably the most famous economic forecasting outfit around. I have seen Bob speak -- he played basketball with Abdul Kareem Jabbar back in his college days!