Introduction

You’re in a VUCA world now

Life is a sequence of decisions. Every day, we are faced with hundreds of choices: some small (what to eat for lunch), some substantial (where to live or where to work). The fear of ‘the wrong choice’ can be debilitating, while the amount of information required to make some choices can be overwhelming. We live in a world of ever-increasing complexity, and what we need is a better game plan – better maps of the territory of life, more robust mental models that effectively depict reality and help us make better decisions, faster. We call those maps ‘mental tactics’.1

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