The Chaos Imperative
How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success

I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway and was delighted with its concise, well-structured narrative that provides excellent examples in support of its main points. For example, Brafman believes that by introducing controlled chaos, whereby we have the opportunity to think instead of h......more

Incredible read to consider what I call "graduate level" application of leadership into a military (and civilian) organization. The principles and supporting stories layout the vision clearly. As a professional, it is then up to us to consider "how do I apply this to my team?" Having now finished th......more

I remember coming across this book several years ago, but it was good to read it with the distance of a decade since it was published. I think perhaps the most interesting element of this book is the unlikely collaboration between Ori Barfman and the U.S. Army's General Martin Dempsey. General Demps......more

Excellent. I read a lot of books of this sort. I like to think of them as Tim Ferris information in a Seth Godin package. This one, however, seems to be rather exceptionally fluff-free (along the same amount of information density as a book like Essentialism). A lot of validation here for me persona......more

Finally found a book discussing the Israeli saying "in Chaos there is opportunity", this thesis cannot be more true and has a central place in my everyday work life. [from Shonna Froebel's review from 10.2016] There are several elements than can bring controlled chaos into an organization. One is crea......more