Data analytics, AI, automation, the cloud, and faster processors frame decision makers' understanding of the world in which we operate. The accumulation of data can be overwhelming. In Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility, David Weinberger challenges readers to reflect on current assumptions and models that have served us well but may now be outdated. This book made me reconsider the constructs that forecasters use to predid future trends and events. Before Weinberger approaches the topic of planning models, he explains "how we think things happen," bursting the conventional wisdom that laws are always the most useful way to address the world's complexities, that we can understand how things happen, that we can make anything happen by pulling the right levers, and that change is always proportional to effect. Those insights are effective prompts for finance professionals to reevaluate their organization's strategic-planning process.
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