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EVERETT HARPER is the CEO and Co-Founder of Truss, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company for 2021 (^#534) and 2020. Everett worked at Linden Lab, Self-Help, Bain & Company, and serves on the Board of CARE USA. Everett is an alum of Stanford University (MBA, M.Ed) and Duke University (BSEE) and won the NCAA National Championship in soccer.

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<p>Navigate complex, uncertain, and unpredictable business environments with pragmatic insights from one of the world&#8217;s leading entrepreneurs</p> <p>&#8220;Everett&#8217;s book <i>Move to the Edge, Declare it Center</i> captures both the spirit, practice, and aspiration of our work at CARE. We&#8217;ve evolved to be more agile, innovative, and creative to respond to the challenge of reducing global poverty amidst the complexity and uncertainty of COVID and climate change. I&#8217;m excited to share his book with our global teams, so we can continue to powerfully stand up for women and girls and families around the world.&#8221;<BR><b>&#8211;MICHELLE NUNN, CEO and President, CARE USA </b> <p>&#8220;At World Central Kitchen, navigating through and adapting to complex environments is part of our core practice when providing nourishing meals to people around the world in times of crisis. I was excited to share our story in <i>Move to the Edge, Declare it Center</i> because Everett&#8217;s book illustrates a new practice of leadership that will be crucial and necessary in the coming decades. I think his framework has the potential to be professionally and personally transformational, so get started!&#8221;<BR><b>&#8211;NATE MOOK, CEO, World Central Kitchen </b> <p>Renowned CEO and strategist Everett Harper explores practical techniques for making pivotal decisions through uncertainty in <i>Move to the Edge, Declare it Center</i>&#8212;a pragmatic playbook for leaders solving complex problems in high-pressure environments. You&#8217;ll discover a collection of practices, processes, and infrastructure that can be applied to your own circumstances and scaled throughout your organization. <p>The author&#8217;s framework&#8212;which is perfectly suited to an increasingly volatile, uncertain, and unpredictable business environment&#8212;offers effective ways to make decisions without complete information. It demonstrates how to sustain a team through uncertain and stressful periods while managing personal anxiety. <p> The book includes case studies from World Central Kitchen, policymakers responding to Covid-19, and California wildfire fighters, adaptable playbooks on salary transparency, remote work, and diversity and inclusion, and personal stories from the author that describe strategies for maintaining high performance and avoiding burnout. <p> An indispensable guide to modern business leadership, <i>Move to the Edge, Declare it Center</i> is a one-of-a-kind discussion of effective, modern strategies to deal with complex problems in the face of uncertain outcomes.

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In Move to the Edge, Declare it Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems, veteran CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers an impactful and pragmatic exploration of complex problem-solving in the face of uncertainty. You'll discover how to unearth valuable business insights by experimenting, iterating, and building an infrastructure to sustain innovation in your teams and organizations.

The author presents a collection of processes, practices, and infrastructure that solves complex problems and discusses ways to systematize, scale and share best practices in your company. You'll find a new framework for leadership that's perfectly suited to a business environment that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, and unpredictable.

The book provides effective methods for decision-making in situations where you lack complete information, ways to sustain your team during uncertain and stressful periods, and effective techniques for managing personal anxiety--a crucial leadership skill.

Move to the Edge, Declare it Center offers revealing and expansive case studies from World Central Kitchen, public health policy- makers responding to the Covid-19 crisis, and California wildfire fighters that demonstrate the implementation of the framework discussed inside. It also includes pragmatic playbooks from Truss' decade of work on salary transparency, remote work, and diversity and inclusion that you can run in your own organization.

The perfect resource for business leaders facing complex problems that require immediate responses even when the decision maker lacks complete information, Move to the Edge, Declare it Center is also a must-read for everyone interested in how contemporary business leaders deal with uncertainty and volatility.