“Powerful,” by the former chief talent officer at Netflix, Patty McCord, came second on the Washington Post’s list of leadership books to read in 2018 – and it’s becoming an influential text about how to manage rapidly expanding businesses in an age of technological change.
There is much about the book which I agree with, and in fact it is a great read, full of personal stories – but I want to take issue with one aspect. McCord argues that we are now undergoing a disruptive experience of technological change. Based on this, she contends that no company can look ahead more than six months and that long-term forecasting is virtually impossible in the current era.
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Source: IT Strategy