My first podcast for Surfing Rogue Waves (Hardcover link here) was good learning experience, we will leave it at that! Some good broad questions that I did my best to answer... for the full interview feel free to click on the picture above (Author Hour link). Also Apple Podcasts linked here.
We live in the greatest period of opportunity in all of human history, but how will you gain from it? Furthermore, how do you influence and shape both your life and the future of humanity? Do you have a plan to engage the exponential change in your life?
Eric Pilon-Bignell’s new book, Surfing Rogue Waves, presents a gripping and insightful framework, and how to pick up a board and surf the rogue waves of the 21st century. His insights are going to help business leaders understand the onslaught of the complexity of the disruption that they face, not just in the office, but throughout the everyday encounters of daily life as they navigate and unshackle future potential.
Drew Appelbaum: Hey listeners, my name is Drew Applebaum and I’m excited to be here today with Eric Pilon-Bignell, author of Surfing Rogue Waves: How to Paddle Out into the 21st Century. Eric, thank you for joining. Welcome to The Author Hour Podcast.
Eric Pilon-Bignell: Thank you very much for having me.
Drew Appelbaum: Let’s kick this off, can you give us a bit of a rundown of your professional background?
Eric Pilon-Bignell: Yeah, my background, I started formally in engineering, I worked as an engineer for a while, and then I moved over more to the front end of the business and interacted more with clients. Then moved again, and more to client facing and interacting and managing clients specifically. I went through from engineering, professionally worked all the way through to consulting now in the IT space. Formal training wise, I did my undergrad in engineering and then an MBA in information systems in technology, and a PhD in global leadership.
Drew Appelbaum: Now, why was now the time to share the stories in the book? Was there something really inspiring that happened, did you have an “aha moment” did you just need to let this out now?
Eric Pilon-Bignell: I finished my dissertation and there’s this certain amount of academic rigor that goes into that and felt that need to apply too much more than what I had published in my dissertation. I found that the more people I was speaking with and the more I was seeing it really map back to everyday life stuff, I spent the next couple of years really understanding that and understanding this disruption. A lot has changed and a lot of the IT and technologies that we have coming and a lot that are already here, and I wanted to open that up. This is what the book is, it moved me more into that space about how it applies more to everyday life rather than global executives.
Massive Changes
Drew Appelbaum: Now, a lot of authors have the idea of the book rattling around in their head and sometimes you can outline the idea out but during the writing process, just by digging deeper into some of the subjects you’re talking about, they’ll come to some major breakthroughs and learnings. Did you have any of these major breakthroughs or learnings along your writing journey?
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