CHAPTER 7

Unleash Your Disruption! The Time Is Now

Here’s the secret to this book. It’s not about pushing for action before you are ready. It’s not about advocating change. I’m not asking you to quit, or to proactively go out and get a new job and rewrite your future. What I am doing is recommending that you be prepared and proactively design your careers. The strategies I suggest will bolster your change-readiness and potentially improve your own attractiveness even within your current career path and company.

One of the masters of reinvention I’ve had the honor of knowing is Sebastian Thrun, innovator, entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He was first motivated to imagine a new way of driving by a deeply emotional event: his friend’s ...

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