801: How to Find the Upside amid Uncertainty with Nathan Furr

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Furr discusses how to reframe your relationship with uncertainty to open up to new possibilities.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to turn the fear of the unknown into an excitement for possibilities

2) The six types of risk and how to manage them

3) How to deal with the frustrations of failure

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— ABOUT NATHAN —

Nathan Furr is a professor of strategy and innovation at INSEAD in Paris and an expert in the fields of innovation and technology strategy. His bestselling books include The Innovator’s Method and Innovation Capital. Published regularly in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes and Inc., he is an Innosight Fellow, has been nominated for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and works with leading companies including Google, Microsoft, Citi, ING, and Philips.

• Book: The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown

• Website: UncertaintyPossibility.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk” by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky

• Study: “Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies” by Karl E. Weick

• Book: The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller

• Book: Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

• Film: Son of a Lion

• Past episode: 210: How to Generate Many Creative Ideas with Tina Seelig

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0:00.0	Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast the show where brilliant
0:05.3	professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at
0:09.4	work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host Pete
0:15.2	McHydus.
0:18.4	Hello and welcome to episode 801 with Nathan for Nathan has some really cool
0:23.8	perspective about uncertainty or risk and how to really enjoy it and find it
0:29.4	really an exciting and a world full of possibilities. So this could be a game
0:34.3	changing reframes. You'll learn one how to turn the fear of the unknown into
0:39.0	an excitement for possibilities to the six types of risk and how to manage them
0:43.0	and three how to deal with the frustrations of failure. So if you want to check
0:47.0	out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference
0:49.7	please visit us at awesome at your job.com slash EP 801. Now here's Nathan's
0:55.9	story Nathan fur is a professor of strategy and innovation at in Sayod in
0:59.8	Paris and an expert in the fields of innovation and technology strategy his
1:03.7	best-selling books include the innovator's method and innovation capital
1:06.8	published regularly in Harvard Business Review MIT Sloan Management Review
1:10.7	Forbes and Inc. He's an insight fellow has been nominated for the thinkers 50
1:14.3	innovation award and works with leading companies including Google Microsoft City
1:18.2	I and G and Phillips. Big thanks to Nathan for sharing his wisdom with us and big
1:22.4	thanks to our sponsors. Check them out. One sponsor to check out is Stanford
1:26.6	Continuing Studies. There you can immerse yourself in a diverse selection of
1:30.3	courses available both online and in person. This winter perhaps you'd like to
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