Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World by Omar AbboshMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book about how businesses should prepare for the present and ongoing disruption caused by new technologies. Pivot to the Future is well-written, although it is Accenture-centric. No surprise there, as they author it.
There were great insights gained from stories of business successes and failures - the results of good or not-so-good responses to what they call big bang disruption and compressed disruption.
The "wise pivot" is an especially useful idea - and not just for business success. It's good life advice. The authors want us to extract full value from all that was, all that is, and all that is yet to come. They touch on old styles of leadership no longer being relevant in a maker's world that is constantly scanning for the net big thing, eager to seize the moment. The old corporate culture must be prepared to leave the safe harbor of today in its quest for the future.
The most succinct advice offered in the book: "Look to the future without being beguiled by it." I guess if you are doing this, never taking your eye off the ball, while working hard to release all of the trapped value in your current gig, you are bound to grow in the right direction.
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