Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Business Transformation, Profitability, and Future Readiness - Hardcover

by Ian Khan (Author)

Ready your organization for the future--regardless of what it may bring--with one of the world's foremost business strategists

In Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Creating a Future-Ready Organiztion, Ian Khan, a distinguished futurist, filmmaker, and author delivers a compelling message that challenges the conventional approach to future-proofing businesses with technology, offering a fresh, comprehensive strategy for thriving in an uncertain future.

In the book, Khan introduces the innovative Future Readiness Score^(TM), a tool developed through his extensive research and experience with over 750 organizations. This score assesses a company's ability to adapt to unforeseeable changes, preparing them to handle both challenges and opportunities. The book elaborates on the seven pillars of future readiness--Engagement, Learning, Collaboration, People, Culture, Innovation, and Execution--demonstrating how to safeguard your company against adverse events and capitalize on positive ones. You'll also discover:

• The proprietary Future Readiness Score^(TM) to evaluate and enhance organizational adaptability
• Practical insights into the seven pillars of future readiness for robust business strategy
• Strategies to not only withstand negative events but also harness positive opportunities

Undisrupted an essential guide for business leaders, including managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and strategists. It is also invaluable for consultants serving various businesses. This book is a crucial resource for anyone aiming to navigate and succeed in the ever-evolving business landscape of tomorrow.

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The future, as a concept, frightens, fascinates, and excites business leaders in equal measure. The unknowable nature of what tomorrow will bring serves to highlight both potential opportunities and pitfalls. But, too often, leaders focus entirely on a narrow concept--using technology to guard against an ill-defined black swan event--to the exclusion of all other future-focused thinking.

In Undisrupted: Leadership Essentials on Business Transformation, Profitability and Future Readiness, renowned futurist, filmmaker, and author Ian Khan delivers a startlingly insightful and exciting new take on how to stop "future-proofing" your organization and start achieving "future readiness." In the book, you'll explore how to handle whatever the future throws at you--good and bad--and how to thrive in the unknown and uncertain.

Khan introduces his proprietary Future Readiness Score^TM, based on his experiences with and research into over 750 organizations, to measure your company's ability and willingness to adapt to an unpredictable future. You'll equip your organization to handle the unexpected twists and turns that the world and its markets inevitably throw your way and learn to stop relying solely on technology to handle your Future Readiness Strategy.

Undisrupted explains the seven pillars of future readiness: Engagement, Learning, Collaboration, People, Culture, Innovation, and Execution. It demonstrates how you can not only future-proof your company against negative events, like recessions, pandemics, and wars, but fully prepare it to take advantage of positive events.

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders, Undisrupted will also prove invaluable to the consultants and other professionals who serve businesses of all sizes, as well as business strategists doing their best to anticipate what tomorrow will bring.

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Praise for UNDISRUPTED

"Unlike many books about the future that are ambitious yet lacking in practical advice, Undisrupted is filled with insights that are immediately useful and refreshingly specific. If you're looking for a comprehensive primer on the future and exactly what you can do to get ready for it, this wide-ranging book will help."
--Rohit Bhargava, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Non-Obvious Megatrends and Non-Obvious Thinking

"In Undisrupted, Ian Khan covers macro trends and their implications to get the reader future ready."
--Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable

"Embracing future readiness in the Decade of the Exponential Organization means harnessing the power of technology, innovation, and human potential to create a resilient and thriving future. Ian Khan's Undisputed is a powerful testament to the importance of preparing for what lies ahead."
--Salim Ismail, bestselling author of Exponential Organizations, Founder of OpenExO

"In Undisrupted, Ian Khan has created a remarkable method of measuring future readiness. Given the rate of change in society today, this is critical to any organization. Knowing where you are is the first step to going where you need to go."
--Bruce Schneier, author of A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

"We are living through a period of unprecedented change and disruption--Undisrupted is essential reading for leaders who want to get ahead of the curve, leaders who want to participate rather than be buffeted by the winds of change, and in doing so, get themselves and their businesses future ready."
--Arlo Brady, CEO of Freud Communications, Chief Executive of Freuds Group, Chairman of the Blue Marine Foundation, Trustee of the Sustainable Food Trust, Honorary Fellow of ZSL, and Co-Chair of the S30

Author Biography

IAN KHAN is a theoretical futurist, author and storyteller on a mission to make every business future ready. His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, ABC, Fox, and Arab news, amongst other global media. He is also the star of an episodic series focused on technology and the future, The Futurist available on Amazon Prime Video. Ian is a high energy keynote speaker and works with organizations across the world. He lives with his wife and two kids in Toronto, Canada.