One Week to Live
The Leadership Playbook for the Age of Shock
Chaim Oren
Description
We live in the Age of Shock, an era in which the interval between global crises has collapsed to zero and human biology is overwhelmed by an exponential torrent of data. Leaders who don’t respond effectively face a stark reality: neither they nor their organizations will keep up for long.
Through his own remarkable story of survival, Chaim Oren teaches leaders to abandon the outdated myth of resilience—’bouncing back’—and instead learn how to rise forward. Instead of trying to withstand shocks, he shows how to convert the kinetic force of continuous disruption into upward momentum.
This is a clear-eyed, highly actionable blueprint that transforms wellbeing into the mission-critical, load-bearing infrastructure required to survive the biological and organizational friction of our time.
Contents
Prologue
You Do Not Bounce Back. You Rise Forward.
Part 1: When the system fails
Chapter 1: One Week to Live
Chapter 2: Fighting Cancer
Chapter 3: The Age of Shock
Chapter 4: Systems Outpacing Humans
Chapter 5: When Effort Fails
Chapter 6: The Unexamined Life
Part 2: Why Wellbeing is Infrastructure
Chapter 7: Beyond Self-care: Building Structural Capacity
Chapter 8: The Internal Operating System
Chapter 9: How to Navigate Shocks
Chapter 10: Wellbeing as System Intelligence
Chapter 11: The Shock-Kinetic Dam
Part 3: The Architectural Blueprint for a Shock-Kinetic Internal Operating System
Chapter 12: The IOS toolkit
Chapter 13: The M.I.R.A.C.L.E. method
Chapter 14: The H.E.A.R.T method
Chapter 15: The S.E.R.V.I.C.E. Method
Chapter 16: The P.U.R.P.O.S.E Method
Chapter 17: The Kinetic Leader
Epilogue
Master Glossary
Editions
FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP
Paperback / 9781805760870 / March 2, 2027 / £14.99
Hardback / 9781805760863 / March 2, 2027 / £24.99
Ebook / 9781805760887 / March 1, 2027 / £7.99
Authors
Chaim Oren
Chaim Oren is a visionary strategist, international keynote speaker, and high-performance wellbeing architect. With decades of experience advising Fortune 500 companies (including Kraft-General Foods and P&G), leading advertising agencies like Y&R, and U.S. states, he has advised high-net-worth philanthropists. He was the Commercial Representative for the State of Connecticut, and most recently served as a brand ambassador for Hinsta Performance, the world’s leading, evidence-based coaching company, helping Formula 1 drivers and business professionals achieve sustainable success.
After surviving a massive heart failure with ‘one week to live’ and a subsequent battle with aggressive cancer, Oren identified the critical biological and systemic failure points of the modern executive. He pioneered the ‘Shock-Kinetic’ frameworks, proving that the traditional concept of resilience is impossible in an era of continuous disruption. Today, acting as a Brand Ambassador for Hintsa Performance (coaches to Formula 1 champions) and a premier guide for global leaders, he teaches executives to upgrade their Internal Operating System (I.O.S.), escape the ‘Control Trap’, and treat wellbeing as load-bearing infrastructure to rise forward in the Age of Shock.
He is based in Matan, Israel and Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
