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If you had to summarize the core message of ‘The Upside of Disruption’ in one sentence, what would it be? Not taking a risk is a risk. We always overestimate the risk of doing something new and underestimate the risk of standing still. For our listeners/readers who want to dive deeper into disruption and innovative thinking, what resources, books, or thinkers do you recommend? I think it is important to go beyond business and leadership books. Research shows that reading
fiction strengthens empathy, self-compassion and imagination. These are muscles that we need to develop more than ever. A book that I’ve been reading recently is ‘The Brooklyn Follies’ by Paul Auster. It’s a great book, all about some of the blind spots of humanity and how a lot of history does repeat itself in different cycles. I’m also really enjoying ‘Slow Productivity’ by Cal Newport. He argues that the antidote to this age of acceleration is to slow down and take more strategic pauses. We need to take more time for reflection and to do less so that we can do things better and protect our minds, our space and our time.
Terence Mauri Adjunct Professor, MIT Mentor Founder of Hack Future Lab Terence Mauri is a world -leading expert on the future of leadership, AI, & Disruption. He is a highly acclaimed Thinkers50 author of The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown and is a visiting Professor at IE Business School and MIT entrepreneur mentor.
“I think we can all benefit from taking wisdom from our children – the way that they bounce back from a failure and keep going, the way that they show resilience in the face of adversity, the way that they are passionately curious. “
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