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Living in Exponential Times

A book for understanding this change of era without panic or euphoria: what is really happening with AI, what it means for your work, and what you can do about it.

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How to get it

Three formats, the same book

What you'll learn

Four readings that bring order to the exponential era

The book gives you four editorial frameworks — not yet another methodology, but lenses to read change with your own judgment.

  • 01

    The 3 T's · Tell noise from change

    Transversal, transformational, transcendental. Three questions to apply to any change in your sector so you know where to act and where to merely observe.

  • 02

    The 3 A's · Where AI is in your work

    Automate, augment, anticipate. Three maturity stages so you can locate yourself and design your next operational move — not on tech, on judgment.

  • 03

    The 4 redefinitions · Which questions open

    Create, work, learn, govern. Four historical certainties have opened up as questions at the same time. The book helps you name them in your own life.

  • 04

    EXOS · An operating system, not another methodology

    Six interdependent blocks — vision, portfolio, cadences, data & AI, people, governance — that apply equally to the company, the person and society.

Why trust this

19 of the book's claims, audited live against the evidence.

Over twenty-five years on the frontier between technology, AI and the future of work. He advises companies rewriting their operations with AI and teaches teams to decide when the rules of the game change every quarter. This is the book he himself needed to read five years ago.

Not sure yet?

Start by finding out how much this affects you

The AI exposure test is free and takes two minutes. When you finish you'll know where the change reaches your work — and which chapters of the book matter to you first.

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