Jason Feifer. Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career. Harmony Books. New York: 2022.
Learn a model for looking at change and adaptation which involves 4 stages:
- Panic
- Adaptation
- New Normal
- Wouldn't Go Back
And ways you can use this model to improve how change impacts you and others. The book outline serves as a great hook.
Interview:
Book Outline
- Introduction
- Panic
- You come from the future
- Why we keep panicking
- Extrapolate the gain
- Use yesterday for what it was, not for what it wasn't
- Adaptation
- What you do and why you do it
- The difference between what and why
- Widen your bands
- Change before you must
- Work your next job
- New Normal
- Treat failure as data
- First to failure, first to solutions
- will it help me or hurt me?
- Build a bridge to familiarity
- The Theory of Theories
- What is this for?
- What a selfie is really for
- Wouldn't Go Back
- Reconsider the possible
- The lurking danger of what we don't know
- Get to the second time
- The "99% there" problem
- Permission to forget
- Appendix: Build Your Tomorrow
- Using this book
- Examples