Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a Bani World That Doesnt Make Sense - Hardcover

Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a Bani World That Doesnt Make Sense - Hardcover

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Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a Bani World That Doesnt Make Sense - Hardcover

Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a Bani World That Doesnt Make Sense - Hardcover

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by Jamais Cascio (Author), Bob Johansen (Author), Angela F. Williams (Author)

A practical leadership framework for the era beyond VUCA, built to help organizations build resilience when systems are brittle, anxiety is constant, and complexity defies explanation.

The BANI framework, developed by futurist Jamais Cascio and expanded here with leadership expert Bob Johansen and United Way Worldwide CEO Angela F. Williams, gives leaders a shared language for conditions that traditional strategic tools were never designed to handle. Where VUCA described volatility and uncertainty, BANI goes further, naming the deeper texture of today's disruption.

The book moves in two directions, first diagnosing each BANI condition with real-world examples, then offering a counterpart for each one:
  • Brittle systems → build Bendable resilience
  • Anxious environments → lead with Attentive empathy
  • Nonlinear causality → develop Neuroflexible, improvisational thinking
  • Incomprehensible complexity → respond with Interconnected, full-spectrum perspectives

Designed for executives, nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and teams navigating sustained disruption, the book closes with 7 leadership strategies grounded in future scenarios and includes a discussion guide for group use.

If your organization is operating in conditions that no longer respond to standard playbooks, this is a structured starting point.

Author Biography

Jamais Cascio, the originator and developer of the BANI framework, is a highly regarded futurist and keynote speaker who has spent the majority of his life exploring the connections between human culture, technological transformation, environmental change, and political disruption. Foreign Policy has listed him in its Top 100 Global Thinkers.

Bob Johansen has had a fifty-year career as a professional futurist at the Institute for the Future and is an author of over a dozen books, including Leaders Make the Future and Full-Spectrum Thinking.

Angela Williams is president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, with more than thirty years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and corporate sectors.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.1 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 28, 2025

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