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The Art of Quantum Planning: Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership

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Quantum Planning is a quantum leap or at least a phase-change in how businesses and institutions need to think about problems that defy traditional logic. By drawing analogies to the "big picture" lessons from modern physics, Harris leads us: beyond the static business plan to the dynamic marketplace of relative customer value; beyond the extremes of rigid definitions to the collaborative space of fluid possibilities; and beyond the cut-throat world of win-lose competition to the win-win dimensions of cooperation.

One doesn't have to be a scientist to appreciate how quantum physics has helped us understand the linkages within a universal energy system; and one doesn't have to be a physicist to appreciate the practical manner in which Harris has adapted these principles to scenario planning and management advice for just about any commercial enterprise or public institution.

It is a short read, but packed with game-changing ideas. I am pleased to recommend it.

As our perception of our environment moves from Newtonian mechanization to a Quantum realization of fluidity, paradox and plenty, we must also shift our thinking in how we lead and sustain our institutions, corporations, governments and non-profits. In this book, Gerald Harris clearly lays out how the concepts integral to Quantum physics apply to our organizations and why we stand to gain enormously from thinking differently about their purpose, their management and their strategies for the future. Our organizations are in need of new thinking and new solutions to meet the challenges they are now facing including global competition, unpredictable climate change, scientific advances and radical new technologies. To grow and thrive, organizations must attune themselves with their business environment, their internal organizational environment and the natural environment. Having this book as a guide to the lessons to be learned from the "new" sciences is invaluable.

Anika Savage, co-author, Life Sustaining Organizations: A Design Guide