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Shelved: Why Disrupt with Impact Belongs in the Business Section's Front Row

Shelved: Why Disrupt with Impact Belongs in the Business Section's Front Row

Shelved: Why Disrupt with Impact Belongs in the Business Section’s Front Row

If you’ve worked in a bookstore long enough, you develop a sense for which business titles will still be relevant in two years and which ones are chasing a trend. Roger Spitz’s Disrupt with Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World (Kogan Page) feels built for the long shelf.

It sits in a tradition alongside books like Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile and Rita McGrath’s Seeing Around Corners, but Spitz brings something those titles don’t always deliver: a working framework you can apply the same week you read it. His Disruptive Thinking Canvas and AAA framework (Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility) give shape to ideas that other authors leave abstract. The San Francisco Book Review, in a 4.5-star review, called it “a step-by-step approach to embracing and driving the kinds of changes that a business requires in order to thrive.”

What makes this a strong hand-sell is the format. The book is organized in short, self-contained sections. A customer can flip to a chapter that matches their challenge, read for 15 minutes, and leave with something practical. SFBR noted it’s “written in bite-sized sections that are packed with information and feature plenty of real-world examples.” That’s the kind of structure that turns a single purchase into a recommendation chain.

Spitz’s authority is well-established. He chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute, keynoted MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference, and ranks among Global Gurus’ Top 15 Futurists Worldwide. The book has won honors from Foreword Indies, Chanticleer, and Readers’ Favorite. Foreword Clarion Reviews described it as “a stimulating and future-focused leadership guide.”

For the reader standing in front of this shelf right now: if you want a business book that respects your intelligence and your schedule, pick this one up. It earns its place.

Get your copy: Disrupt with Impact on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8LMHFZJ/?tag=book-links-20)

What reviewers are saying:

“His advice is realistic and actionable in pretty much every industry” — San Francisco Book Review (https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/disrupt-with-impact-achieve-business-success-in-an-unpredictable-world/)

“A stimulating and future-focused leadership guide” — Foreword Clarion Reviews

About Roger Spitz

Roger Spitz is Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute and Founder & CEO of Techistential. Named one of the Top 15 Futurists Worldwide by Global Gurus (2026), he delivered the headline keynote at MIT Technology Review EmTech (SĂŁo Paulo, 2025). Visit thrivingondisruption.com (https://www.thrivingondisruption.com/disrupt-with-impact).

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