Risky Is The New Safe: The Rules Have Changed... A Rock Opera (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I love out-of-the-box thinking, and Gage does not disappoint on that count. It starts with the title and continues on to the last page. But Gage is not flipping the world upside down just for kicks. He makes very cogent arguments to support why approaching the world "backwards" is the best way to navigate the world of the 21st century.I love Gage's writing style. Very informal, it feels like he's in the same room with me having a friendly chat. But what he offers is much more full of depth than idle chit-chat. While he acknowledges the challenges of a constantly changing world, he also recognizes the opportunities. As Gage himself admits, "the greatest opportunities are the ones that solve challenges for other people."Some might decry Gage's tome as a devotion to the god of doom and gloom. After all, Gage shows how disruptive technology will eliminate millions of jobs, how we could be replaced by an animal or even a clone, how the government is probably run by the ethics of a Ponzi scheme, how there could be a New World Order, how everything you were told about ego is wrong, how selfishness is good, and how cataclysmic change is just around the corner. I agree that it sounds pretty dire on the surface. Where Gage excels is in signaling the opportunities amidst the challenges.Here's a great example. Gage announces that selfishness is a virtue and then attempts to delineate what that really means from what it doesn't: "But when your self-expression is only about you and scoring more points than anyone else, the victory is a shallow one. You'll reach a stage where you will hunger for something with more meaning. You understand that prosperity isn't really about reaching success, but living a successful life. . . . The path to prosperity is making the natural transition from success to significance." It all starts and ends with thinking about things in a different way. Gage weaves it throughout his book but really pounds that point home in the final pages.As Gage says, ideas will be the currency of the future, and Gage shows how to ditch the herd mentality and be a contrarian in the midst of conformity. I highly recommend this book and will likely reference it again and again as the future unfolds. The economy is broken.The educational system from top to bottom is broken.Traditional business models are broken.And that's the good news.In his new book, Risky Is The New Safe, Randy Gage makes a clear and compelling case that in this time of world turmoil, now is the time to zig while all others zag. The book reads like a a road map from where we are today to where we are heading in the next 10, 20, 50 years.New morality, disruptive technology, class warfare, social media. It's all here laid definitively in Randy's take no prisoners style. It's an in your face missive that challenges your preconceived ideas. This is a book for thinkers.
What do You think about Risky Is The New Safe: The Rules Have Changed... A Rock Opera (2012)?
Meh. Nothing earth-shattering here. I didn't t come away from this one with any new insights.
—syen
Es provocativo, retador y para tenerlo a mano, me encanto!!
—cbrinkley
