The Light and Fast Organisation: A New Way of Dealing with Uncertainty

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck made history by climbing the North Face of the Eiger, a notoriously unpredictable and storm-prone mountain in Switzerland, in a record time of two hours and forty-seven minutes. On the surface, Steck's approach was staggeringly simple: he climbed light and he climbed fast.

The North Face of the Eiger provides the perfect metaphor for the world we live in today. We are experiencing our own unpredictable and violent storm, caused by complex interactions between people, places and technology. This storm is creating an increasingly confused landscape of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and most of today's workers and organisations are not appropriately equipped to respond.

Although business and mountaineering share many parallels, they are rarely explored beyond superficial colloquialisms about 'dreaming big' and 'never giving up'. In this book, Patrick Hollingworth introduces the 'light and fast' approach, a refreshingly new and insightful perspective that arms you, and the organisation you work for, with the right mindset and skills to take advantage of the opportunities ahead.

You will learn how to:

• flip business convention to prepare for an uncertain future
• understand change and unearth opportunities
• see uncertainty and complexity as opportunities to be embraced
• create a 'light and fast' organisation that is truly agile and innovative
• get comfortable with uncertainty and discomfort, to achieve more, faster.

The Light and Fast Organisation offers a unique approach for overcoming the world's most perplexing business challenges and reaching the summit before the storm arrives.