Decision Sprint

The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action

By: Atif Rafiq

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

It's no secret that steering a business has become dramatically more complex and uncertain in our modern era. Constant exploration of new territory by teams is the name of the game. Yet most companies are stuck with yesterday's approach to problem solving.

Having reached the highest levels of the Fortune 500, digital disrupter Atif Rafiq has written Decision Sprint to pull the curtain back on the hidden management systems within your organization that impact how people think, collaborate, and make decisions.

Talent is vital to any company's advancement, but it's the collaboration and problem solving systems that separate industry leaders from the rest. Systems designed to embrace unknowns are the quickest, most enduring way to foster growth, continuous innovation, and results. Learn how teams begin with upstream work—the phase of a promising idea or initiative where the unknowns predominate—to problem-solve anything, thus unlocking downstream actions from alignment to decision making to execution. With Rafiq's guidance, you'll overtake your competitors by moving upstream, embracing workflows that convert unknowns to clear recommendations, alignment, and action. In addition, you'll receive advice from the CEOs/presidents of H&R Block, Volvo, Peacock, and Orange Theory Fitness, among others—and learn from in-depth case studies.

©2023 Atif Rafiq (P)2023 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

A Must Read for Stagnant Execs in Corporate America

There is nothing more frustrating in the corporate grind than feeling like all of your momentum is lost to non-agile figure heads. Decision Sprint leverages Atif’s extensive expertise to analyze typical pitfalls of corporate sucktitude. I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to get others to see the forest through the trees.

Fantastic book from someone that clearly was on the “trenches” before!

It’s a great book to put teams on track to do what it’s commonly missing.
It covers extremely important areas of success with clear and very much applicable techniques and methods.
This is not a fluffy purely theoretical book, it gives you many tools and systems to fix what many organisations struggle to achieve.

Couldn’t recommend it more, being a chief digital officer, this book is done by someone which clearly has went through the ropes.

Couldn’t recommend it more!