Discover how the proven business principles of beta testing can help you make better decisions, decrease overall risk, and improve the quality of your life, work, career, and all your projects
Just like in software development, it pays to be curious, innovative, and experimental. This book will show you how to reframe existence, become anticipatory, and exercise agency to upgrade yourself to make the most of our uncertain and disruptive world.
Volume III - "Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World" - shares tactics, tools, and resources on how to create your personal and professional futures and stay relevant despite constant change and unpredictability.
This bestselling book covers a broad set of topics, including work and money, the relationship between innovation and failure, your economic life, education, longevity, agency, and meaning. We also provide insights and case studies on the creator economy, as it has never been easier to monetize a creative idea.
Anything that can be automated, cognified, decentralized, digitized, disintermediated, or virtualized will be. How can constantly learning, unlearning, and relearning help us build the capacity to thrive in this complex technological world?
In addition to examples and templates, this guide includes two Workbooks filled with toolkits and practical applications: "Beta Your Life Workbook: Create Your Personal Future" and "Education Workbook: Prepare Educators & Learners for Disruptive Futures". Everything you need to jump-start your decision-making
Roger Spitz and Lidia Zuin draw on decades of insights from advising entrepreneurs, CEOs and their leadership teams in Silicon Valley and globally on evaluating their companies, competitiveness, strategic projects, innovations, and disruptions ahead.
A foresight strategist, investor, and writer, Roger's expertise lies at the intersection of futures studies and sustainable value creation. Lidia is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist.
Staying relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop which you can untangle. Are you ready to learn the moves to becoming and remaining relevant? Then order your copy of The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III, and start making better decisions today
Industry Reviews
"The Disruptive Futures Institute helped us rewire our perspectives and the assumptions we make about the world and its possibilities. We are now well-equipped to move to the next level, from extreme ski and mountaineering to extreme RELEVANCE for any futures ahead." - BENEDIKT B-HM, EXECUTIVE BOARD OBERALP, CEO DYNAFIT & EXTREME SKI MOUNTAINEER
"Teaches readers how to embrace disruption to own their destiny and spark pathways to innovation... It is truly one for the ages." - SHELLI BRUNSWICK, COO OF SPACE FOUNDATION
"Never before has the world needed such tools, frameworks, and practical applications to inform not only how to survive, but thrive." - KARA CUNZEMAN, LEAD FUTURIST, THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
"This Guidebook gives us the tools to help us create our own navigation system... nothing less than the golden key to a new paradigm." - ANTOINE GELAIN, MD PARAGON EUROPEAN PARTNERS
"An operating manual, a system of content to build fluency in the language of uncertainty, disruption, and unpredictability. A rich and practical set of resources for anyone to capitalize on disruption." - CATHY HACKL, FOUNDER OF JOURNEY
"Roger and Lidia address the disruptive nature of our world and offer a toolkit to thrive with it. It is practical, actionable, and mixed with references and examples..." - ANDREY SHTYLENKO, DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY GROUP, HONEYWELL
"Helps readers become 'Response-able'... getting out of the victim mindset and giving them more agency over how to prepare for and respond to disruption." - DAVID SOLOMON, HEAD OF OPERATIONS (RETIRED), LEADERSHIP IN ISRAELI ARMY & PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE
"You'll learn how to be inquisitive and how to adapt to rapid change with a diverse set of tools and models - which will quickly become your own." - LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAKE SOTIRIADIS, PH.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE UNIVERSITY
"Absolutely required reading for everyone, from students to policy makers, from executives to entrepreneurs, who want to thrive on both current and future challenges." - DR. TERENCE TSE, PROFESSOR AT HULT BUSINESS SCHOOL
