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The world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. What if the greatest advantage of the future isn't intelligence, strength, or speed-but the capacity to remain capable?

Artificial intelligence is transforming work. Technology is reshaping education. Economic uncertainty, demographic shifts, and accelerating innovation are challenging institutions built for a more predictable world. Meanwhile, our bodies, minds, families, and communities are struggling to absorb change that rarely pauses long enough for recovery.

In CAPABLE: Adapting Through Relentless Change, Pedro Salazar introduces Adaptation Science, an emerging interdisciplinary framework for understanding how living systems, individuals, organizations, and societies respond to change-and why some emerge stronger while others become increasingly fragile.

Drawing on biology, neuroscience, medicine, economics, engineering, and organizational science, Salazar challenges a fundamental assumption: surviving disruption is not the same as successfully adapting to it.

A person can remain productive while losing health. A business can increase efficiency while becoming more vulnerable. A hospital can maintain operations while exhausting its workforce. Even successful solutions can create Adaptive Debt-hidden costs that diminish the ability to meet tomorrow's challenges.

But adaptation is not simply something that happens to us. It is a capacity we can deliberately strengthen.

Through compelling examples and practical frameworks, CAPABLE presents five essential practices:

• See Sooner: Recognize change before it becomes crisis.

• Build Before: Develop strength, knowledge, relationships, and reserve before they are needed.

• Change the Constraint: Address what truly limits progress.

• Keep Options Alive: Preserve flexibility and freedom in an uncertain world.

• Complete the Cycle: Convert stress, experience, and recovery into lasting capability.

From cellular biology and aging to artificial intelligence, health care, business transformation, and community resilience, CAPABLE offers a new lens for understanding the defining challenge of our time.

The goal is not merely to survive relentless change. It is to emerge from each challenge with greater capacity to meet the next.

The future will not stand still. Neither must we.

Remain capable.

Book details

• Full title: CAPABLE
• Subtitle: Adapting Through Relentless Change
• Author: Pedro Salazar
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9798953179041
• ID: 54222975
• Publisher: Henry James Publishing
• Weight: 304 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. October 2026

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