Curious Leadership with Dominic Monkhouse

E216 | Uncertainty: The Portal to Possibility with Nathan and Susannah Furr


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How do you deal with uncertainty? Do you avoid it at all costs or do you embrace the unknown excitedly?

To discuss the upside of uncertainty is husband and wife team, Nathan and Susannah Furr, authors of The Upside of Uncertainty. 

As the Professor of Strategy and Innovation at INSEAD, and with a PhD from Stanford, Nathan is an expert in innovation and technology strategy. Susannah is an entrepreneur, designer, artist, and contrarian who’s recently started a bio-intensive garden as part of a ‘hope accelerator’ in Normandy, France. 

On this episode of The Melting Pot, Nathan and Susannah share their experiences of tackling uncertainty, and discuss how you can improve and train your risk tolerance and seek the upside of uncertainty. And in doing so, how we can then impact organisations. 

Download and listen to learn more. 

On today’s podcast:

  • The portal to possibility 
  • Uncertainty balances
  • How do you teach uncertainty?
  • Regret minimisation decision making
  • Driving innovation inside businesses 


Links:

  • Books: The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown
  • Twitter:  @nathan_furr
  • LinkedIn: Nathan Furr
  • Website: The Upside of Uncertainty


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