Uncharted by Margaret Heffernan
Excellent (and very timely). --Financial Times * Smartly assembled case studies and insights. --Publishers Weekly * A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Former CEO and popular TED speaker Margaret Heffernan offers powerful and practical tools so you can face the future with confidence and courage.Most of us are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future. But the complexity of modern life won't provide that; experts in forecasting are reluctant to look more than 400 days out. History doesn't repeat itself and even genetics won't tell you everything you want to know. Tomorrow remains uncharted territory, but Margaret Heffernan demonstrates how we can push aside uncertainty and forge ahead with agility. Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Uncharted traces long-term projects that shrewdly evolved over generations to meet the unpredictable challenges of every new age. Heffernan also looks at radical exercises and experiments that redefined standard practices by embracing different perspectives and testing fresh approaches. Preparing to confront a variable future provides the antidote to passivity and prediction. Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to friendships, this refreshing book challenges us to mine our own creativity and humanity for the capacity to create the futures we want and can believe in.Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, and author of Willful Blindness, a Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book nominee. She produced award-winning programs for the BBC before returning to the United States to head multimedia technology companies. She was born in Texas, raised in Holland, and educated at Cambridge University. She consults with senior executives all over the world and contributes to Huffington Post, CBSMoneywatch, and Inc.com. Visit Margaret's website, mheffernan.com, or follow her on Twitter, @M_Heffernan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781982112639 |
| ISBN 10 | 1982112638 |
| Title | Uncharted |
| Author | Margaret Heffernan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2021-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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