Adaptability : the art of winning in an age of uncertainty /
All success is successful adaptation. All failure is a failure to adapt. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. Fascinating real-world examples from business, government, and sport, military and wider society bring the rules of adaptability to lif...
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London :
Kogan Page,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: In search of adaptability
- Part 1. Recognize the need to adapt
- Rule 1. Play your own game
- Rule 2. All failure is failure to adapt
- Rule 3. Embrace unacceptable wisdom
- Rule 4. F*** with the rules
- Rule 5. Stability is a dangerous illusion
- Rule 6. Stupid survives until smart succeeds
- Part 2. Understand necessary adaptation
- Rule 7. Learning fast better than failing fast
- Rule 8. Plan B matters most
- Rule 9. Free radicals
- Rule 10. Think better together
- Rule 11. Get a kick-ass partner
- Part 3. Adapt as necessary
- Rule 12. Never grow up
- Rule 13. Hierarchy is fossil fuel
- Rule 14. Keep the ball
- Rule 15. Swerve and swarm
- Rule 16. Get your ambition on
- Rule 17. Always the beginning
- Final words.