Make Change Work for You: 10 Ways to Future-Proof Yourself, Innovate Fearlessly and Succeed Despite Uncertainty

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Business, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but the basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organisation haven't. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, MAKE CHANGE WORK FOR YOU shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge in life or business.

Using a simple, four-part model, Steinberg helps you understand and better respond to the challenges that change can bring:

1. Focus: Define the problem and come to understand it objectively.

2. Engage: Interact with the challenge and try a range of solutions.

3. Assess: Review the response(s) generated by your tactics.

4. React: Adjust your strategy accordingly.

And finally, the book shows how to develop the vital personal and professional skills required to triumph in the 'new normal' by understanding and engaging in the 10 new habits that highly successful people share:

1. Play the Odds

2. Embrace Tomorrow Today

3. Seek Constant Motion

4. Lead, Don't Follow

5. Never Stop Learning

6. Create Competitive Advantage

7. Connect the Dots

8. Pick Your Battles

9. Set and Align Your Priorities

10. Always Create Value

Reviews

Practical, hands-on and powerful, Scott isn't afraid to talk about being afraid and how it keeps us down - Seth Godin, bestselling author, The Icarus Deception

This powerful, practical book is loaded with proven strategies to build your self-confidence, become more innovative, and unlock your creativity - Brian Tracy, bestselling author, Eat That Frog!

One of the greatest barriers to progress is fear - of failure, rejection, embarrassment, uncertainty, and confrontation. With actionable advice and empowering examples, Make Change Work for You provides the tools we need to succeed in the face of our fears - Adam Grant, Wharton professor and bestselling author of Give and Take

A must-read for any working professional [Make Change Work for You] provides the new formula for finding lasting success in your career - Dan Schawbel, New York Times bestselling author of Promote Yourself

An eye-opening read that will change the way you look at business. Start competing for tomorrow . . . today - Brian Solis, digital analyst and anthropologist, author of What s the Future of Business

Steinberg provides a one of a kind formula for evolution and growth in an age of constant change. His paradoxical findings, from numerous interviews and research: we deal best with change when we use the tools of both change and constancy, changing ourselves, and yet remaining constant in our application of what he calls the F.E.A.R. model focus, engage, assess, react. It's an eye-opening read - Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute

Provides a more personal and practical formula for innovation that's just the prescription for executives looking to break through to the next level - Marty Yudkovitz, retired Head of Strategic Innovation, The Walt Disney Company

Provides powerful new insights into the nature of creativity and personal growth - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, and author, Finding the Next Steve Jobs

Author Bio

Scott Steinberg is among today's leading business strategists and strategic innovation consultants, as seen in 600+ outlets from CNN to Time and The Wall St. Journal. The CEO of management consulting and market research firm TechSavvy Global, he helps clients create value and cultivate competitive advantage on the back of emerging trends. A top-rated keynote speaker, popular author and futurist, he provides presentations and training workshops at events, meetings and conferences.

Among today's most-quoted industry experts, he has been a featured guest or contributor to programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ESPN, and MTV, and columnist on change and innovation for Fast Company, Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post.