HEFFERNAN, MARGARET

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

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ISBN 13:: 9781471179822
author:: HEFFERNAN, MARGARET
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Simon & Schuster Ltd
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 13 x 2.3 centimetres (0.2
Genre:: Business, Economic Conditions, Business,
Condition:: New
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Margaret Heffernan's bold and invigorating new book explores the people and organisations who aren't daunted by uncertainty. We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future, but complexity won't provide that.

Ineradicable uncertainty is now a fact of life. In complex environments, efficiency is a hazard not a help; being robust is the better, safer option. Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Heffernan looks at long-term projects developed over generations that could never have been planned the way they have been run.

Experiments, led by individuals and nations, discover new possibilities and options. Radical exercises in forging new futures with wildly diverse participants allow everyone to create outcomes together that none could do alone. Preparedness - doing everything today that you might need for tomorrow - provides the antidote to passivity and prediction.

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