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Navigate confidently through uncertain futures to thrive in unpredictability with practical strategies, proven frameworks and impactful guidance from a leading global futurist and venture capitalist.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Disruption has always existed - what's different now?; Chapter - 01: Exploring the dual nature of disruption - Challenges and possibilities; Chapter - 02: Embracing new mindsets for thriving on uncertainty and disruption; Chapter - 03: Scanning the horizon - What's changing and what's staying the same; Chapter - 04: Tools for navigating and anticipating disruption; Section - TWO: How to drive systems innovation and transformational change; Chapter - 05: Disruption as a springboard for creating impact and value; Chapter - 06: Harnessing systems innovation to solve our complex challenges; Chapter - 07: Greenaissance - Value creation for sustainable futures; Chapter - 08: The next chapter of digital disruption - Industries converge and new fields emerge; Section - THREE: The future of artificial intelligence, strategic decision-making and technology; Chapter - 09: Evaluating next-order impacts of exponential technologies; Chapter - 10: Our AAA framework - A survival guide for staying relevant in the age of AI; Chapter - 11: Info-ruption - The internet of existence, cyber insecurity and disrupted information; Section - FOUR: Unleash your disruptive thinking; Chapter - 12: The Disruptive Thinking Canvas - Invent the future today;
About the author
Roger Spitz is a renowned futurist, bestselling author, and President of Techistential, a futures intelligence practice. He also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute, a global education hub empowering leaders for transformative change. A world-leading authority on strategic foresight and systems innovations, Spitz is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network.
He guides CEOs, founders, and boards in evaluating strategy under uncertainty, anticipating disruptions, and sustainable value creation. His frameworks have been featured in Fast Company, Gartner, INC. Magazine, Institute of Directors, and MIT Technology Review. A strong advocate for startups, he is a partner at Vektor Partners (VC fund), and an advisor to Berkeley SkyDeck. Previously, Spitz led Global Technology M&A at BNP Paribas, advising on over 50 transactions totaling $25 billion. Spitz has given hundreds of keynotes globally, is frequently published and quoted, and has guest lectured at many of the world's most prestigious institutions. He is based in San Francisco, USA.
