Hacking Uncertainty: A Counterintuitive Code for Resilience During Disruption and Change - Softcover

Price Pritchett

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Synopsis

In  Hacking Uncertainty,  Dr. Pritchett offers elegant and innovative guidance for maneuvering through unpredictable times. He maps out the “road less traveled,” a secret route through disruption and change, providing a shortcut that helps move you through today’s fog of uncertainty toward the best possible outcomes.

You’ll learn the unusual psychology of dealing with unpredictability, a counterintuitive code for managing yourself under conditions of low visibility and high stakes. Use this code to bend your behavior in new directions far better suited for today’s rapidly shifting circumstances and chronic uncertainty.

The approach spelled out in this book probably isn’t what you would expect. It also may feel unnatural to you. But it’s powerful, and you can make it work. Chapters include:

  • Beware of Your Natural Impulses
  • Examine Your Tolerance for Ambiguity
  • Open Yourself to the Uncertainty
  • Break Some of Your Rhythms, Routines, and Personal Rules
  • Control the Controllables
  • Focus on Contributing
  • Facilitate Information Flow
  • Follow the Rules of Improv
  • Let Intention Guide You
  • Use What Life Brings You

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About the Author

Price Pritchett, Ph.D., is Chairman and CEO of PRITCHETT, LP, (pritchettnet.com) a company known worldwide for its expertise in organizational change, merger integration, corporate culture, and process redesign. For more than 30 years, he has helped executives and their workforces understand and rise to the challenge of accelerating change. With more than 20 million copies of his books in print, he is one of the bestselling authors in the world. Dr. Pritchett's clients include Pfizer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, ABC Radio, Wachovia, McDonald's, John Deere, Michelin, ABN-AMRO, Lockheed-Martin, Novartis, and Delta Airlines. He is also the author of McGraw-Hill's Hard Optimism.

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Change... Sometimes you can see it coming. Other times you just get a feeling inside, the vague sense that something big, something different is coming down. But now and then it takes you totally by surprise. Regardless of how it approaches, though, change usually comes with a traveling companion: Uncertainty.

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