"If you want to know how countries, companies and individuals can master the winds and the waves that will dominate the next decade, this is the book for you."
--Rupert Pennant-Rea, former editor of the Economist, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England "'If leading your organisation sometimes feels like changing the front wheel of a bicycle whilst toy are still pedalling it as fast as you can, this is a book you should read."
--Sir David Brown, former Chairman, Motorola UK
"Beyond Crisis is full of compelling reasons, clear advice and practical models to help almost any enterprise remain viable beyond the deeply unsettling systemic failures that characterise today's business environment."
--Professor Richard David Hames, Dhurakilpundit University, Founding Director Asian Foresight Institute
"We are in uncharted territory. There are few people who any longer think that the world post-crisis will be anything like the world before. Ringland, Sparrow & Lusting provide a clear description of the way that leaders need to think in this new reality. In doing so, they give us hope."
--Estelle Clark, Business Assurance Director, Lloyds Register
The next decade will present organisational challenges on an unprecedented scale.
Beyond Crisis shows how you can build a 'purposefully self-renewing organisation' which will survive and succeed in the midst of this chaos. The book shows how financial and economic crisis has blighted organisations in every sector, and then provide a range of tools and future scenarios for diagnosing problems and creating solutions.
This is a welcome dose of clarity in uncertain times.
About the Author: Gill Ringland is CEO and a Fellow of SAMI Consulting, which helps organisations make robust decisions in uncertain times. Previously, she was head of corporate strategy at ICL (now part of Fujitsu). She is the author of several highly-regarded books on scenarios including Scenarios in Business, Scenarios in Public Policy, Scenario Planning, and Scenarios in Marketing. Oliver Sparrow directs the Challenge Network, a group of senior strategic consultants. He spent two decades with Shell, chiefly in strategic planning, public affairs and new ventures. He has also directed a public-private sector strategic partnership out of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is well known as a speaker and thinker on policy at national and international levels.
Patricia Lustig is a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School, where she specialises in leadership development, change management and organisational performance enhancement. She is also a member of the organisational development faculty at the CIPD, where she runs their scenario planning course. She previously worked as a Senior Organisational Development Adviser and Team Leader at BP and at Motorola.
All three authors are senior members of SAMI Consulting.
