Fatal Abstraction

AI is disrupting business faster than traditional strategy can adapt. Fatal Abstraction offers a bold framework—blending philosophy, mental models, and venture experience—to help leaders rethink strategy, embrace uncertainty, and build resilient, future-ready organisations. In an era where AI is accelerating disruption and uncertainty, traditional business strategy is dangerously outdated. While innovation professionals adapt rapidly, many established organisations remain stuck in slow, mechanistic planning cycles. Fatal Abstraction argues that to survive, leaders must learn to govern at the level of uncertainty they face—rethinking how strategy is conceived, executed, and evolved. Drawing on philosophy, mental models, and first hand experience with hundreds of ventures, author Michael Nichols offers a bold framework for mastering disruption. This timely work equips entrepreneurs, executives, and investors with the tools to navigate AI-driven change, build resilient ventures, and revolutionise strategic thinking in the modern age.

Pages: 216, Paperback, Emerald Publishing Limited