The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri.
Terence is the founder of Hack Future Lab. He is a former Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and McKinsey, and columnist for Inc. Magazine’s Future Proof column. He is Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting professor at both IE Business School in Spain and an Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at London Business School.
Terence is introducing the “fail principle” and seeking to move organizations to relook at failure as a source of data and resilience. He sees failure as a source of innovation.
Organizational leaders who embrace this will not only survive disruption but leverage this for long?term value creation. Terence is sharing his key message of “unlearning” by stating “good leaders learn, but great leaders unlearn.”
So Unlearning must be a deliberate act by leadership. This including challenging assumptions, removing obsolete processes and introducing new behavioral models. The major obstacle to agility is the organization’s culture.
The DARE Mindset
So enter Security Chaos Engineering (SCE), a discipline of peThe DARE framework introduces leaders to address change:
Data: Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to move beyond intuition toward evidence-based decision-making.
Agility: Analyze and Break down “talent-crushing bureaucracies” to foster speed.
Risk: Move from a culture of fearing failure to acknowledging that “standing still” is more dangerous.
Evolution: Adopting a biological approach to business where adaptation is a constant state rather than a one-time reaction.
Too many organizations have “Zombie Leadership” linked to the outdated Industrial Age mindsets. That mindset fails to deliver “nutritional value” to modern workforces. Perhaps to no surprise, old playbooks is a key indicator organizations fail to adapt and accordingly this results in a slow “decay” in both employee performance and relevance.
In conclusion, this serves as a playbook for “future-readiness,” providing organizational leaders to shift their culture to one of courage. Terence makes it very clear technology is in constant, fast change while humans do not. To succeed and thrive requires embracing constant change.