Chapter 10
Unraveling the Double Bind
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
—Mike Tyson
We humans are planners. We plan our days, our educations, our careers, our retirements, and everything in between. We plan to nudge hoped-for tomorrows into being. We plan to guard against the unpredictability we know lurks around every corner. Whether or not planning is a formal activity, our minds run overtime visualizing how future scenarios will unfold.
There's nothing wrong with planning. We're naturals at it.
Yet in so many ways it's getting harder to plan, and nowhere more so than in our businesses. We see extreme volatility in our stock market and economic growth projections, whose frightening changes loom over our lives even though ...
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