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When you’re being buffeted by change, “flip your kayak faster”
Build your resilience now to weather the unexpected changes that WILL come your way!
Rogue waves — radical systemic changes — are hitting businesses and individuals harder, faster and more often. These unexpected changes can derail your career. But they can also be a doorway to opportunity, if you have the right mindset.
So says Jonathan Brill, author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive & Profit From Radical Change. He presents an intriguing metaphor to help you prepare for the unexpected. When you get hit by an unexpected event, you must learn to “flip your kayak faster.”
In other words, cultivate agility and resilience now, before you need it. So, when the unexpected happens, you can recover or course correct faster.
Brill emphasizes that we already know more about the future than we imagine. For starters, we know that our worlds WILL be disrupted — and more frequently than ever before. Not only that but multiple waves of technological, economic and social change are colliding with each other, forming even larger…
