When Britain surprised the world by voting to exit the European Union last spring , any book publisher worth the paper it was printing on should have sensed the opportunity for a timely meditation on the state of global- ization , or a chance to discuss the fragile thing that is modern industrial society . And the lesson was a familiar one : People don ’ t always do as the prevailing wisdom would have them do .
This year ’ s three most compelling books on the topic of strategy touch on how to plan for , quantify , and cope with unpredictability in life , business , na- ture , and geopolitics . The first two — Yossi Sheffi ’ s The Power of Resilience and Robert Salomon ’ s Global
Vision — are explicitly about managing the risks faced by leaders of large global enterprises . The third , Friend & Foe , by Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer , is about
Planning for unpredic tability relationships , both personal and business , and how to navigate the opposing forces of cooperation and competition that under-lie them all .
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