Becoming a successful business leader can often depend on a leader’s relationship with uncertainty.
Key Details
- In their book Mastering Uncertainty, authors Matt Watkinson and Csaba Konkoly examine what separates successful founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders from their peers.
- While talent and skill play a role in achieving success, Watkinson and Konkoly argue that a leader’s relationship with uncertainty is the factor that sets him apart.
- Nearly everyone has unexpected events along their path to success, but the reaction to that event will dictate whether or not the leader can overcome it.
Why it’s important
Mastering uncertainty may come more easily to some than others, but Watkinson and Konkoly argue that any leader can learn this skill. High performers recognize that the world will always be unpredictable, and these events cannot distract them from their ultimate goal.
Drawing on their own experience in the business world, Watkinson and Konkoly ask business leaders to rethink traditional ways of thinking and reframe uncertainty as an exciting advantage rather than a thing to fear.
In Mastering Uncertainty, readers will learn how great entrepreneurs think and how they can follow suit. Watkinson and Konkoly offer practical advice on situations a business leader will likely encounter, such as spotting new business opportunities, handling setbacks, and growing a business.
Watkinson is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and business consultant. He has previously written The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences and has been invited to address industry leaders worldwide.
Konkoly is an entrepreneur from Hungary who launched his first business before turning 20. He is a self-taught stocks and bonds trader and has built and run global hedge funds over a 17-year career.
Mastering Uncertainty was published by Penguin Random House on March 28, 2023.