{"product_id":"when-burning-man-comes-to-john-g-singer-9798242721494","title":"When Burning Man Comes to Washington: A Field Manual for Riding Chaos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Singer lays bare what most management gurus won't admit: your strategic frameworks died years ago; you just haven't buried them yet.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - David Mayer, Vice President, Gartner Data and Analytics Research Board\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is less a manual of answers than an invitation to rethink the questions... a bold contribution that will stimulate dialogue about what strategy must become when the old maps no longer fit the territory.\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Leiblein, PhD, Professor of Strategic Management, The Ohio State University, Co-Editor, \u003ci\u003eStrategic Management Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrategy in the information age is no longer about optimizing the existing system. It is about building the one everyone else will eventually have to play inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Burning Man Comes to Washington\u003c\/i\u003e is a field manual for leaders navigating a world where the old frameworks have collapsed and the new ones haven't yet been named. Drawing on more than twenty-five years at the intersection of healthcare, technology, economics, and geopolitics, John G. Singer delivers a visceral diagnosis of why institutions are executing brilliantly while accelerating their own unraveling - and offers a radically different operating philosophy for what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat You'll Find Inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e◆ \u003cb\u003eThe Wattage of Trump\u003c\/b\u003e - Why Donald Trump is not an aberration but a system phenomenon, and what his methods reveal about narrative power, chaos as strategy, and how markets actually move\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e◆ \u003cb\u003eBalls\u003c\/b\u003e - Case studies in strategic courage: AbbVie's break from the herd, Japan's polite disruption failure, and why the pharmaceutical industry is defending a hilltop it already lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e◆ \u003cb\u003eThe American Way\u003c\/b\u003e - A forensic deconstruction of the $4.3 trillion healthcare economy as the hidden operating system of national power - and why \"fixing cost\" is the wrong question\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e◆ \u003cb\u003eCelestial Messaging\u003c\/b\u003e - The AI data wall, the trillion-dollar mythology of Big Tech, and why the machines are running out of us before we run out of them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e◆ \u003cb\u003eThe Crazy Hypothetical\u003c\/b\u003e - System-level provocations: a Merck-Verizon acquisition, the untapped geoeconomic value of the VA, data dignity as structural ownership, and the portfolio of Amazon-like objects hiding inside healthcare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho This Book Is For: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for executives, strategists, and decision-makers who sense that the playbook has expired but haven't yet found the language for what replaces it. For healthcare leaders trapped inside a system that mistakes cost management for strategy. For policy thinkers watching institutions crack under the weight of their own operating myths. For anyone in business, government, or the professions navigating institutional transformation who needs systems thinking for leaders delivered without the anesthesia of consultant-speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Burning Man Comes to Washington\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't promise certainty. It offers orientation - a way to see clearly when navigating chaos becomes the job itself. Informed by complexity science, narrative strategy, ecosystem design, and a punk rock ethos that refuses to mistake the PowerPoint for power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead it before the meeting. You'll hear different things once you're inside the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John G. 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