“Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”
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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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“The future is hybrid. In a liminal world, there are no industry boundaries.”
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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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“After thousands of years of coevolution, humans are now inextricable from technology.”
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“The ultimate disruption would be an existential event so catastrophic that it leads to the extinction of humanity.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.”
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“The single most dangerous mistake made by most decision-makers, organizations, and governments is looking at disruption as discrete, unique, episodic events.”
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“Disruption itself is generally neither good nor bad; its impact depends on one’s perspective and the nature and timing of one’s response.”
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“Disruption is generally neither new nor bad; it is simply accelerating. The world’s fundamental paradigms are increasingly changing.”
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“Disruption creates more agency, freedom, and choice.”
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“Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”
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“The social justice barometer is impossible to reconcile for everyone.”
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“This need for humans to enhance their capabilities to become AAA is relevant in the context of machines learning faster, with increasingly higher-level human functions.”
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“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude of potential consequences, not the probability.”
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“Resilience is a prerequisite to antifragility.”
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“Fast-changing environments drive new opportunities and gaps. Agility means finding those gaps and exploring them.”
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“The Red Queen Race necessitates being fast and astute. Speed alone is insufficient.”
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“While futurists imagine multiple possible futures, quantum physicists research multiple present realities.”
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“Rare is becoming less rare.”
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“Loosely coupled systems enable experimentation and learning, benefitting from feedback loops.”
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“In these paradigm shifts, addressing individual parts of a problem will not resolve anything.”
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“Consider systemic interconnections and next-order implications from initial change.”
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“The single most dangerous mistake is looking at disruption as isolated, special cases or independent single episodic events.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“AI won’t replace humans, but people who can use it will.” This sounds reassuring, but it oversimplifies the complex future of work and AI integration. Experts predict a surge in opportunities, but the intricate interplay between cognification, mass automation, and how we work remains uncharted. The net effect of AI on employment is unknown - we have no data on the future.”
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“The companies, institutions, and governments relied on assumptions about the predictability of the world, and they were wrong. As their assumptions had worked in the past, they are now blaming the nature of the world (not the erroneous assumptions they made).”
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“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as discrete or isolated events - impacts cascade and spill over. Drivers of disruption collide, intersect, and amplify.”
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“Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging and exploring the multiplicity of potential futures which may arise from disruptions is a creative exercise, not a number-crunching one.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Pre-defined boxes and categorical, rigid sub-segments do not reflect our complex systemic world, where everything is interrelated and interconnected.”
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“The true impact of innovation isn’t in its disruptiveness; rather, it lies in its ability to ignite hope, unlock new possibilities and catalyse positive transformations across systems.”
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“Withstanding systemic disruption requires effectiveness over efficiency.”
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“Systemic disruption will continue to drive significant shifts in business models, value creation, and value destruction.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Disruption is no longer merely a single or recurring event, but a steady state, expanding its impact. In short, while disruption has always existed, it is now disrupting itself.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“How the West reacts to China’s rise will be an epoch-defining driver of disruption.”
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