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Foreword by Tom Peters
Internationally known management consultants Nicholas Imparato and Oren Harari connect the picture as a whole of our changing civilizations with the precise practical actions that managers have to try produce results today. All organizations are faced with the same challenge: the need to jump the curve to make significant, discontinuous leaps in their thinking, whether about product, technology, or management style. The choice to follow current practices completely to their inevitable decline is unacceptable. The authors show us that it is also unnecessary.
Drawing on numerous personal interviews with innovative leaders about the world, as well as research and first-hand observation, Imparato and Harari identify the four strategic imperatives--innovation, intelligence, coherence, and responsibility--that will enable companies to successfully jump the curve and thrive in the emerging epoch. Plus they show how cutting-edge companies and leaders are translating these imperatives into action.
Not because the dawn of the Modern Age some five hundred years back has civilization undergone the type of profound, rapid-fire changes we're experiencing today. Even organizations that are adapting, growing and innovating contain the gnawing sense that obsolescence is right around the corner. Jumping the Curve offers perspective and guidance for conducting business as of this unique instant. It connects the picture as a whole of our changing world with the practical actions managers must take now to put their organizations for success in a new epoch we can not yet fully see or understand.
