Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience

EPILOGUE

Imagining the Future

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience.

—ROBERT FULGHUM

If you found yourself in a rip current tomorrow, how would you survive? Do you know how to do it? Let’s model organizational redundancy and refresh.

To survive, you don’t fight the current, exhausting your limited resources; instead, you have to stop wasting your effort on an impossible fight and pause. Then you have to ask yourself a series of questions to get fully aware of your situation, and you have to see yourself, floating on the surface of the water, recovering your energy. Finally, you have to choose to swim back ...