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Move to the Edge, Declare it Center: Practices and Processes for Creatively Solving Complex Problems
Lead your organizations, solve problems, and sustain your company’s growth with effective practices for complex, uncertain, and unpredictable environments
In Move to the Edge, Declare it Center, CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You’ll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure to sustain your innovations in your teams and organizations.
In Move to the Edge, Declare it Center, CEO, entrepreneur, and strategist Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You’ll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure to sustain your innovations in your teams and organizations.
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256 pages, Hardcover
Published March 22, 2022
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About the author
Everett Harper
4 books3 followersEverett Harper is the CEO and Co-Founder of Truss, a human-centered software development company, named as an Inc 5000 fastest-growing private company for 2020 and 2021. He is a rare combination of a Black entrepreneur with Silicon Valley pedigree, a NCAA National Champion, and a proven record for solving complex problems with social impact.
He had the foresight to build a company that’s been remote-first since 2011, salary-transparent since 2017, anticipating the importance of hybrid work and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) by a decade. Before Truss, Everett was at Linden Lab, maker of Second Life, a pioneering virtual world, and Bain and Company management consultants.
Though both his parents had pioneering careers as software programmers for IBM, Everett is the first in his family to attend college, as an A.B. Duke Scholar at Duke University. While majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering at Duke, he also won a NCAA National Championship in soccer. He was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame in 2019. Everett graduated with an MBA and a M.Ed in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford University.
In his career, he’s leveraged his education and experience to help millions of others, from helping fix healthcare.gov at Truss, fighting poverty worldwide as a Board Member of CARE, and helping low- and moderate-income homebuyers while at Self-Help, a community development finance institution.
Everett’s distinctive voice and unique history makes him a sought-after speaker on leadership, remote work, DEI, and social entrepreneurship. He has been featured at conferences such as Dent, Tugboat, TechStars and Velocity, podcasts like the Commonwealth Club and AfroTech, and writing for Forbes, Thrive Global, and TechCrunch. Move to the Edge, Declare it Center is his first book.
Everett grew up a small town kid in New York’s Hudson Valley. He currently lives in Oakland, CA, making limoncello when life hands him lemons.
He had the foresight to build a company that’s been remote-first since 2011, salary-transparent since 2017, anticipating the importance of hybrid work and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) by a decade. Before Truss, Everett was at Linden Lab, maker of Second Life, a pioneering virtual world, and Bain and Company management consultants.
Though both his parents had pioneering careers as software programmers for IBM, Everett is the first in his family to attend college, as an A.B. Duke Scholar at Duke University. While majoring in biomedical and electrical engineering at Duke, he also won a NCAA National Championship in soccer. He was inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame in 2019. Everett graduated with an MBA and a M.Ed in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford University.
In his career, he’s leveraged his education and experience to help millions of others, from helping fix healthcare.gov at Truss, fighting poverty worldwide as a Board Member of CARE, and helping low- and moderate-income homebuyers while at Self-Help, a community development finance institution.
Everett’s distinctive voice and unique history makes him a sought-after speaker on leadership, remote work, DEI, and social entrepreneurship. He has been featured at conferences such as Dent, Tugboat, TechStars and Velocity, podcasts like the Commonwealth Club and AfroTech, and writing for Forbes, Thrive Global, and TechCrunch. Move to the Edge, Declare it Center is his first book.
Everett grew up a small town kid in New York’s Hudson Valley. He currently lives in Oakland, CA, making limoncello when life hands him lemons.
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July 3, 2022
Essential for Leaders
If you’re interested in a leadership role or have leadership aspirations!, this book is for you! This book is filled with practical yet timely advice based on the author’s own experiences. As a result of the global pandemic in 2020, the world has changed a great deal. Any new leaders must possess the ability to pivot & adapt. This book will help you with both. Take my advice, add this book to your leadership toolkit!
If you’re interested in a leadership role or have leadership aspirations!, this book is for you! This book is filled with practical yet timely advice based on the author’s own experiences. As a result of the global pandemic in 2020, the world has changed a great deal. Any new leaders must possess the ability to pivot & adapt. This book will help you with both. Take my advice, add this book to your leadership toolkit!
July 21, 2022
Just finished "Move to the Edge, Declare It Center" by my friend and fellow Tugboat member Everett Harper.
Leaders face a variety of complicated and complex problems. Everett does a great job of defining and contrasting the differences as he proposes the "Move to the Edge" framework for navigating the uncertainty and ambiguity of complex problems.
The significance of the title (and the model) stems from an inspirational Toni Morrison quote. The model is a mindset and a series of methods and practices to help hypothesize, trial and learn as one addresses complex situations
Everett uses his real world experience of navigating COVID, fully remote work and salary transparency at Truss, the company he co-founded and helps lead. What I admire about the book is how he also taps into other examples and companies to support the model and business case approach.
Both strategic in approach and practical from the depth in which he shares the details, the reader has plenty to consider and apply. Definitely check it out
Leaders face a variety of complicated and complex problems. Everett does a great job of defining and contrasting the differences as he proposes the "Move to the Edge" framework for navigating the uncertainty and ambiguity of complex problems.
The significance of the title (and the model) stems from an inspirational Toni Morrison quote. The model is a mindset and a series of methods and practices to help hypothesize, trial and learn as one addresses complex situations
Everett uses his real world experience of navigating COVID, fully remote work and salary transparency at Truss, the company he co-founded and helps lead. What I admire about the book is how he also taps into other examples and companies to support the model and business case approach.
Both strategic in approach and practical from the depth in which he shares the details, the reader has plenty to consider and apply. Definitely check it out
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