Mastering Uncertainty: How Great Founders, Entrepreneurs, and Business Leaders Thrive in an Unpredictable World

by Matt Watkinson, Csaba Konkoly

Overview

What separates the world’s most successful founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders from the rest?

It’s not visionary ideas or superhuman intelligence. It’s something more fundamental: their relationship with uncertainty.

Most people are blown off course by unexpected events. Top performers, by contrast, know how to navigate our unpredictable world. Not just that: they know how to thrive in it. You can acquire this essential skill, too.

In Mastering Uncertainty, investor and serial entrepreneur Csaba Konkoly and award-winning business author Matt Watkinson reveal the shortcomings of conventional business thinking and the advantages of developing a “probabilistic” mindset that turns uncertainty from a source of fear into an incredible and exciting advantage.

They offer superbly practical advice on everything from how to handle setbacks and expand your network, to how to spot business opportunities and shape them into successful, growing businesses.

Above all, they show how to think and operate like a great entrepreneur.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781637743621
Publisher:	BenBella Books
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Matt Watkinson is an internationally renowned business author and speaker, and the cofounder of Methodical. His first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, won the CMI’s Management Book of the Year in 2014. His second book, The Grid: The Master Model Behind Business Success, was published to critical acclaim in 2017.

Csaba Konkoly was born and raised in Hungary, and launched his first business as a teenager, importing cars from Italy after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. While studying economics at university, he taught himself to trade bonds and currencies, and spent the next 17 years building and running hedge funds around the world, culminating in a $2+ billion global macro fund. Since then, he has shifted his focus to early-stage tech investments, five of which have become unicorns—valued at more than $1 billion each.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Mastering Uncertainty is mandatory reading. Not just for company founders and leaders, but for anyone wanting to succeed in our ever-changing world.”
–Keith Ferrazzi, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Who’s Got Your Back and Founder/Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight

“Mastering Uncertainty is a great book. It will teach you to stop searching for definitive answers that don’t exist, and embrace a world of possibilities and probabilities.”
—Jim P. O’Shaughnessy, New York Times Bestselling Author of What Works on Wall Street
 
“Every chapter of Mastering Uncertainty is packed with practical advice for how to succeed in our unpredictable world.”
—Steven Drobny, Founder and CEO, Clocktower Group, and Author of Inside the House of Money and The Invisible Hands
 
“Finally, a business book that explains how to succeed out there in the messy, real world. Mastering Uncertainty is essential reading.”
—Charlene Li, New York Times Bestselling Author of Open Leadership and Founder, Altimeter
 
“Mastering Uncertainty replaces fear of the unknown, the unpredictable, and the uncontrollable with a feeling of empowerment and a sense of greater opportunity.”
—Howard Morgan, Chairman, B Capital Group
 
“Compelling, entertaining, and actionable, Mastering Uncertainty is an incredible distillation of methods and mentalities to help you succeed, whatever the future brings.”
—Jeremy M. Isaacs CBE, Founding Partner, JRJ Group, and Former CEO, Lehman Brothers in Europe, Middle East, and Asia
 
“In a thought-provoking collaboration that is a delight to explore, Konkoly and Watkinson provide a practical road map to embracing chance and serendipity as a real superpower to thrive in a future where uncertainty is sure to be a feature, not to be feared.”
—Paul Bricault, Managing Director, Amplify, and Adjunct Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts

Editorial Reviews

"""Mastering Uncertainty is mandatory reading. Not just for company founders and leaders, but for anyone wanting to succeed in our ever-changing world.""
–Keith Ferrazzi, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Who's Got Your Back and Founder/Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight

""Mastering Uncertainty is a great book. It will teach you to stop searching for definitive answers that don't exist, and embrace a world of possibilities and probabilities.""
—Jim P. O'Shaughnessy, New York Times Bestselling Author of What Works on Wall Street

""Every chapter of Mastering Uncertainty is packed with practical advice for how to succeed in our unpredictable world.""
—Steven Drobny, Founder and CEO, Clocktower Group, and Author of Inside the House of Money and The Invisible Hands

""Finally, a business book that explains how to succeed out there in the messy, real world. Mastering Uncertainty is essential reading.""
—Charlene Li, New York Times Bestselling Author of Open Leadership and Founder, Altimeter

""Mastering Uncertainty replaces fear of the unknown, the unpredictable, and the uncontrollable with a feeling of empowerment and a sense of greater opportunity.""
—Howard Morgan, Chairman, B Capital Group

""Compelling, entertaining, and actionable, Mastering Uncertainty is an incredible distillation of methods and mentalities to help you succeed, whatever the future brings.""
—Jeremy M. Isaacs CBE, Founding Partner, JRJ Group, and Former CEO, Lehman Brothers in Europe, Middle East, and Asia

""In a thought-provoking collaboration that is a delight to explore, Konkoly and Watkinson provide a practical road map to embracing chance and serendipity as a real superpower to thrive in a future where uncertainty is sure to be a feature, not to be feared.""
—Paul Bricault, Managing Director, Amplify, and Adjunct Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts"

From the Publisher