“Today, when routine cognitive tasks are digitized and automated, and multiple lifetimes worth of information are accessible at our fingertips (much of which rapidly becomes obsolete), the focus of education must shift.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Complexity’s biggest dangers arise when we are mired in assumptions and boxed into existing sectors and industries instead of noticing new patterns on the fringe and changes emerging over time.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“While the rhythm of change may appear slow, the tempo of disruption is extremely fast.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“The single most dangerous mistake made by most decision-makers, organizations, and governments is looking at disruption as discrete, unique, episodic events.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Signals are fragments of the future that can be observed today.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Understanding the nature of change is critical for overcoming resistance.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Disruption itself is generally neither good nor bad; its impact depends on one’s perspective and the nature and timing of one’s response.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Change is slow, until it isn’t.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Similar to living organisms, these living BMaaS (Business Models-as-a-System) have an innate capacity to change creatively within their ecosystems, as they emerge and unfold. Change is expected, organic, and constant.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Disruption is generally neither new nor bad; it is simply accelerating. The world’s fundamental paradigms are increasingly changing.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Today, even tangibles are intangibles - cars, planes, and computers rely on software. They are essentially digital assets under the disguise of a mechanical body, and much of their value is intangible.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“When we connect with multiple perspectives and diverging views, we unleash inspiration.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Education is a constant, lifelong process of learning, unlearning and relearning - from the playground all the way to the boardroom.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The Zen Buddhism concept of shoshin (the beginner’s mind) is a reminder of intuition’s importance. Ultimately, the beginner’s mind offers humility as a place for learning.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Uncertainty is a prerequisite to our agency and freedom.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Relevance is both an antidote to avoid and a method for driving disruption.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Maintaining relevance requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Disruption creates more agency, freedom, and choice.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“We must remember that agency emerges through choice, not structure.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Seek a fresh perspective by asking questions instead of relying on answers.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Thus far, humans have excelled at decision-making, but our comparative advantage may not last… Ultimately, it is an existentialist question around agency.”
“Some things will constantly emerge; others may disappear or change at different rates. Ultimately, we have agency to determine our future. We have choices as, above all, we are human.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Decisions only exist when they are actioned.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Agency is our ability to take action and influence outcomes.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“In any situation, we can use our agency to define our purpose and seek meaning.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“The permission to wander around, imagine, ask questions, and challenge assumptions allows magic to happen and new possibilities to emerge.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Instead of waiting for a system to coalesce into consistency, the successful actor must learn to operate in complex, uncertain, and ever-changing environments.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“If there is alignment among stakeholders, values, and actions, we have the agency to make things happen.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Our agency emerges through choice. Applied to our actions, we must continue choosing, thinking of ourselves as creators of our futures.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Reversible decisions are two-way doors, allowing for agility in the face of uncertainty.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Theoretically, artificial superintelligence could possess humanity’s combined cognitive capacity. In contrast, superstupidity could take on multiple features, including overreliance on the underlying “intelligence” of these systems. For instance, believing that AI can be a proxy for our own understanding and decision-making as we delegate more power to algorithms is superstupid. Perhaps AI is also superstupid, and may cause mistakes, wrong decisions, or misalignment.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“We need the humility to acknowledge that we may not fully understand the net impacts or timing [of AI].”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In an unknown situation, humility about one’s knowledge is paramount.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Two of the most potent antidotes to relying entirely on assumptions are imagination and a small dose of humility. Humility is a place for learning.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“The social justice barometer is impossible to reconcile for everyone.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Blurring the lines and subverting its recipients, information permeates every facet of society.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Information affects the very fabric of society. It could be the primary weapon in the future of war, and it could determine the future of humanity.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Deviations from standard results are not failures, but opportunities for new questions to be asked and ideas to be tested.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Failure is a necessary ingredient to invention.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The more you are prepared to fail, the more relevant and inventive you will become.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Failovation is the sort of failure that generates innovation, potentially prompting a standing ovation.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Opportunities arise by moving from silos to systems and rethinking the structures that incentivize our actions.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Be empowered to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities for success and growth.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system for our lives and projects.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The antifragile perfects being imperfect.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Like any foundation, antifragility requires continued care to remain resilient to new hazards, which constantly emerge to erode it.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The trade-off between efficiency and resiliency is a trade-off between fragile and antifragile.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty