Vivek Ranadive, Author of "The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future - Just Enough"

Really successful people are good at making accurate predictions faster and better than everyone else. The all-time hockey greats like Wayne Gretzky knew, with astounding accuracy, what was going to happen next in the game. Imagine if a company could, in effect, skate to where the puck is going to be -- not guess, but correctly anticipate what will happen next.  Ranadivé captures the essence of this notion and illustrates how organizations do this every day to gain a competitive edge.