“To harness the virtues of disagreement, you need trust. Without trust, alignment is impossible.”
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“The 6 i’s toolkit combines enhanced intuition with real-time improvisation to adapt to changing circumstances and imagine new possibilities. Then, inspire yourself to invent your future and achieve the impossible.”
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“Imagination is infinite.”
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“Imagination outshines analysis.”
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“Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”
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“Before insights arrive, one must undergo an incubation period.”
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“The future does not exist today, so we have the opportunity to imagine it, shape it and navigate towards it.”
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“Foresight does not hold a crystal ball. It prepares you for the swerves. The future of prediction is imagination.”
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“Our Disruptive Thinking Canvas provides a streamlined six-step process, consolidating the foundational principles of our work in one location.”
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“We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions - we have the power to shape our own futures.”
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“When our minds are truly relaxed and empty, they can often solve our most intractable problems.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“At every moment, we have the agency to do something different. Moving forward, by both choice and necessity, we must integrate increasingly imaginative activities.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Two of the most potent antidotes to relying entirely on assumptions are imagination and a small dose of humility.”
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“When new connections are made with a multiplicity of perspectives and diverging points of view, inspiration is unleashed.”
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“It is the outside actors who challenge assumptions and ask new questions that beat incumbents in imagining and innovating on what might come next.”
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“The courage to wander and fail is both necessary for our survival and key to outsized discoveries.”
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“As you follow your passion, make it evident. Passion is naturally contagious.”
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“Most school systems reward repeating the right answers to known problems, but doesn’t that simply teach learners to rely on questions that have clearly derivable answers?”
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“The future is hybrid. In a liminal world, there are no industry boundaries.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Anything that can be automated, cognified, decentralized, digitized, disintermediated, or virtualized will be. These shifts will radically transform every aspect of the economy, including industries, sectors, professions, jobs… even the meaning of work itself.”
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“Remaining relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop.”
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“Artists, musicians, composers and writers are all experiencing upheaval which could match that of a factory becoming automated.”
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“Humans operate on millennia-old hardware. We can comprehend linear relationships, but have trouble processing accelerating rates of change.”
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“After thousands of years of coevolution, humans are now inextricable from technology.”
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“Techistentialism studies the nature of human beings, existence, and decision-making in our technological world. Today, we face both technological and existential conditions that can no longer be separated. We define this phenomenon as Techistentialism.”
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“Today, humanity faces technological and existential conditions that can’t be separated. We define this phenomenon as “Techistentialism.” Our existential condition is an uncertain one, considering the inherent dualities and paradoxes of life. Our techistential condition is no different.”
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“We must harness curiosity, creativity, and diverse perspectives, because today’s standard knowledge will never solve tomorrow’s surprises.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“For the first time in history, we have no answers to many of the fundamental questions around how the world or humanity might look a decade or two ahead.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“The ultimate disruption would be an existential event so catastrophic that it leads to the extinction of humanity.”
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“Today, we are faced with profound questions on the most fundamental features of our world, about the essence of existence and human life in the not-so-distant future.”
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“Metaruptions drive systemic disruption: The term metaruptions is an abbreviation of disruption with the prefix “meta.” A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself. Metaruptions are characterized by the dynamic interactions of subordinate drivers of change. Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions. As initial changes spill over, these impacts combine to propagate and modify other elements within the system, ultimately disrupting the disruption itself.”
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“Metaruptions acknowledge the absence of answers to these questions, aiding in the distinction between explicit drivers of disruption and the intricate, emergent nature of their unpredictable interactions. Metaruptions defy rulebooks. We must envision the questions to be asked - and delve into the questions behind the questions. Metaruptions require adaptive problem finding and resilient solutions amidst incomprehensibility. The current decade will bring unparalleled messiness together with its opportunities. Learning to speak the language of metaruptions means staying engaged as paradigms shift to unravel these possibilities.”
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“AI is developing quickly, and the goalposts to remain relevant are constantly moving. Anything we think we know today in relation to AI will change tomorrow.”
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“Incumbents benefit more from the status quo than changes to the system.”
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“Systemic change can be unsettling due to its inherent complexity.”
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“To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions.... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
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“The term metaruptions is an abbreviation of disruption with the prefix “meta.” A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself. Metaruptions are characterized by the dynamic interactions of subordinate drivers of change.”
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“Physically agile, this squishy strategist and tentacled tactician uses its intelligence and agency to intuit situations, anticipate outcomes, invent solutions, and improvise, remaining relevant for nearly 300 million years.”
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“Despite the unpredictability of our complex world, focusing on constants is still insightful. Relative to the variabilities of change, the unwavering direction and consistent rhythm of constants stand out.”
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“Metaruptions defy rulebooks. We must envision the questions to be asked - and delve into the questions behind the questions. Metaruptions require adaptive problem finding and resilient solutions amidst incomprehensibility.
The current decade will bring unparalleled messiness together with its opportunities. Learning to speak the language of metaruptions means staying engaged as paradigms shift to unravel these possibilities.”
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“Small shifts at the appropriate levels can produce greater changes throughout systems. Incentives are strong leverage points because they represent the rules of the system and its boundaries.”
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“We need to become ‘perfect imperfectionists’.”
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“Everything in our world is constantly evolving - except our organizations, strategies, and governance structures”
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“Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
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“Nothing is permanent but impermanence. At the same time, everything is
in constant change.”
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“In truth, neither volatility nor change have an inherent valence.”
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“Decision-makers have more information than ever before, but the speed of change means they have less time to make decisions.”
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“The accelerating pace of change is now the norm.”
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“People will deem certain new ideas impossible, until they become part of everyday life.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Foresight does not seek to predict, but to drive imagination to inform decision-making and the actions required today in light of the potential futures ahead. Foresight prepares you for the swerves.”
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