Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-making in a Confused and Troubled World

Praise for Beating the Global Odds

“With Beating the Global Odds, Paul Laudicina offers not only a provocative look at the major challenges of our time, but also the very real opportunities we have to convert headwinds into advantageous tailwinds. As countries, companies and individuals seek to solve the calculus for sustainable growth, this brisk and compelling volume by one of the world’s foremost business strategists couldn’t have come at a better time.”

—Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company

“Diagnosing the causes of decline is relatively easy. Inventing and applying remedies is a great deal more difficult. By drawing on a huge diversity of sources, by encouraging us all to become ‘discerning omnivores,’ and by applying the sum of his own peerless experience, Paul Laudicina helps us understand not just what needs to be done but also how to do it.”

—Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP

“Seminarian, scholar, Senate staffer, from Chicago to the top of A.T. Kearney, from whiz kid to wise man: Paul Laudicina has written a book as singular as his career. Beating the Global Odds shows how to turn complexity into promise, and pixels into the Big Picture. Don’t wait for the Next Big Thing; here is how to do it. The book is a concise and gripping breviary for the knowledge economy of the 21st century—the distilled wisdom of a thinker and a doer, a rare breed in the boardrooms of the world.”

—Josef Joffe, Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg; Senior Fellow, Stanford University

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