Our Guidebook
“With his team, Roger created an operating manual, a system of content to build fluency in the language of uncertainty, disruption, and unpredictability… This Guidebook offers a rich and practical set of resources for anyone - organizations, entrepreneurs, policymakers, educators, and learners - to capitalize on disruption.”
- Cathy Hackl, Founder & Chief Metaverse Officer of Journey
Over the past few years, the Disruptive Futures Institute has delivered hundreds of keynote talks, courses, and executive education programs on decision-making in uncertain and disruptive environments to the world’s most admired and innovative organizations. Given the overwhelming interest, the Disruptive Futures Institute has published The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption (which we refer to as “Guidebook” or “Guide”) for release to a general audience.
Based on our practitioner research, proprietary frameworks, and global executive programs, the Disruptive Futures Institute’s body of work connects the shifting dots between seemingly disparate topics. It examines the next-order implications of change in our indeterminate world while offering user-friendly, practical tools to drive and thrive on disruption.
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is a four-Volume Collection published by the Disruptive Futures Institute LLC in San Francisco:
Volume I - FOUNDATIONS. Reframing and Navigating Disruption:
How to make sense of our complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world.
Volume II - FRAMEWORKS. Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty:
Practical frameworks to help you and your business stay relevant in the 21st century.
Volume III - YOUR LIFE.
Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World:
What does constant change and uncertainty mean to you as an individual?
Volume IV - YOUR BUSINESS. Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation:
What does our unpredictable, complex, and systemic world mean for you as a business?
Bulk Orders & Curriculum Support
We provide discounted pricing and tailored offerings for significant orders of The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption, including using our Guidebooks for academic or executive programs.
If you wish to discuss bulk orders or custom curriculum support, please reach out to: info@disruptivefutures.org
The lead authors are Roger Spitz in collaboration with Lidia Zuin. A foresight strategist, venture capitalist, and writer, Roger’s expertise at the intersection of futures studies, systems thinking, and sustainable value creation builds on 20 years leading investment banking businesses as Global Head of Technology M&A. Lidia is a journalist, science fiction writer, and professional futurist whose work is focused on innovation, emerging technology and trends, virtual reality, and gaming.
Roger Spitz
Lidia Zuin
“More than a book, what the world was asking us for was a practical field guide on how to navigate disruption and nonlinear change; a compass; a system of content, resources, and ideas on how to stay relevant in our complex and unpredictable world.”
- Roger Spitz, Chairman Disruptive Futures Institute
“If you’re looking for a book about disruption based on overused innovation examples, cliché corporate anecdotes, and trite observations about how “technology will save us,” this isn’t the book for you. ”
To flourish in this increasingly complex, unpredictable, and nonlinear environment, we must understand the velocity, trajectory, and magnitude of the underlying drivers of change, whether technological or otherwise. Doing so requires casting assumptions aside, throwing out the old playbooks, rewiring our mindset, embracing the unknown, and taking agency of our own futures.
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption widens and deepens our perspectives, changes the narrative structure around uncertainty, and helps every reader understand, anticipate, and navigate disruption.
Guidebook Tools & Resources
The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption is designed to be practical, filled to the brim with accessible toolkits, checklists, case studies, examples, and principles. We have designed hundreds of proprietary visuals throughout the Guide to translate the ideas and illustrate frameworks in a more relatable format
Check out a sample of a few of these visuals and toolkits on selected topics for you to download. This small selection is drawn from a total of over 500 unique illustrations, toolkits, and infographics throughout our Guidebook.
