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02880aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 97D59D88403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 200910s2020 sa 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1770107258 020 $a 9781770107250 035 $a (OCoLC)1194667263 040 $a OG $$ beng $e rda $c OG $$ dYDX $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d EEM $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a HC905 $b .W45 2020 082 04 $a 330.968 $2 23 100 1 $a Whitfield, Bruce, $e author. 245 14 $a The upside of down : $b how chaos and uncertainty breed opportunity in South Africa / $c Bruce Whitfield. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Macmillan, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 229 pages ; $c 26 cm 520 $a "Next time you go to a conference or hire a consultant to be told, 'We live in a VUCA [Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous] world, ' leave the room. You are wasting your time.In a world of fake news, deep-fakes, manipulated feeds of information and divisive social-media agendas, it's easy to believe that our time is the most challenging in human history. It's just not true. It is a time of extraordinary opportunity. But only if you have the right mindset. Fear of the future breeds inaction and leads to strategic paralysis. We put off decisions until we can have certainty. We look for signals. We wait. And while we do that, the world moves on around us. Problem-solvers thrive in chaotic and uncertain times because they act to change their future. Winners recognise that in a world of growing uncertainty, you need to resort to actions on things you can control. And the only things over which you have absolute control are your attitude and your mindset. These, in turn, determine the actions you will take and that will define your future. A robust mindset is the one common characteristic Bruce Whitfield has identified in two decades of interrogating how South Africa's billionaires and start-up mavericks think differently. They are not naive Pollyannas. They don't ignore risk or hope that problems will go away. They constantly measure, manage, consider and weigh up opportunities in a tumultuous sea of uncertainty and find ways around obstacles. If, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller suggests, the stories we tell affect economic outcomes, then we need to tell different stories amidst the noise and haste of a rapidly evolving world."--Back cover. 650 0 $a Economic development $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Fake news. 650 0 $a Journalism, Commercial $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Economics $z South Africa. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Economic conditions. 650 7 $a Economics $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902116 650 7 $a Journalism, Commercial $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984122 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024352.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=97D59D88403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search