Browse 277 quotes about Foresight.
“What we think we want right now can prevent us from achieving what we really want in the future.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“We were created with more than five senses. Apart from the basic five, we also have the gut and the third eye. The gut being the seat of all feeling, and the third eye being the seat of intuition (foresight).”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“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
“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 fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.”
“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
“None of these were “Black Swans,” which is the “go to” taxonomy for C-suites and policymakers justifying their surprise in the face of the assumptions they made about the world, signals they chose to ignore, and preparation they decided to skimp on.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The objective is not to get the future right. Rather, our work spurs better preparation for any of the futures which may arise.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The issue with uncompromising reliance on flawed assumptions is not being wrong, but being unprepared for alternative outcomes.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The imagined suppression of uncertainty is nothing more than a mirage… The future is unknown, and we all constantly make assumptions. But to rely on assumptions as if they were certainty is irresponsible.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Resilience is a prerequisite to antifragility.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“It’s having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable.”
Source: Itsy's Ugly
“Technology consultancies that design and sell these advanced AI systems may have difficulty being objective about the potential job displacement caused by those very tools.”
“In a VUCA world, if you’re not consciously confused, you’re ignorant. If you’re not preparing, you’re negligent.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The eventuality of a global pandemic was certain, leaving uncertain only the timing and impact.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“We force-fit our tiny rubrics over this immense existence of ours until we’ve confused the box we’ve created for the existence we failed to mimic.”
“The future is y'our future.”
Source: Futurize Yourself
“While futurists imagine multiple possible futures, quantum physicists research multiple present realities.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Neither past nor present, but the FUTURE has become the key to y’our existence, today. As without a future there is no meaning to life.”
“Rare is becoming less rare.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Consider systemic interconnections and next-order implications from initial change.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“With complex, systemic challenges, there are no individual winners. Collectively addressing these means we all win; failure means we all lose.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“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.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“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).”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“You can’t rely on modeling uncertainties to deliver certainty.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“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
“If we are to remain relevant, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Maintaining sustainability (in its broadest sense) may be contingent on humanity’s ability to manage and problem-solve ourselves out of the most complex, systemic, and existential risks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Climate-aligned interventions at the levels of education & mindsets, foresight & visions, and structures offer the most leverage for systemic change.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Pre-defined boxes and categorical, rigid sub-segments do not reflect our complex systemic world, where everything is interrelated and interconnected.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“The whole is not merely different from the sum of its parts - the whole lacks a clear relationship to the parts’ sum.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Metaruptions are constantly evolving. The signals provide feedback loops that help appreciate how dynamic futures may take shape. However, we need to pay careful attention to compounding forces, which could spill over into irreversible tipping points.
To comprehend disruption, we need to decipher its fundamental drivers, forces, and influences. Identifying these drivers, and their synthesis as metaruptions, can inform decision-making.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Abolishing the dualism between short-term and long-term goals necessitates iteration and the integration of feedback in our dynamic world.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Science fiction anticipated many of today’s existential questions... Science fiction provides an ethical platform for debate, to anticipate what might arise.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there.”
Source: The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls
“Long-term thinking fleshes out short-term opportunities.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The roles we play today - an explorer, pioneer or settler - affect all the horizons.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Greenaissance will continue to drive fundamental shifts in business models and transfers in value.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Disruption 3.0 compounds systemic disruptive effects. As complex environments are hyperconnected, hazards and opportunities interact multiplicatively.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical... The single most dangerous mistake is looking at disruption as isolated cases or independent episodic events.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The impacts of disruption depend on your perspective, preparation and response.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The problem of debasement caused by men. Just how they moved through the world, free and presumptuous. Just how the most they thought to do was always not enough, a task completed never as valuable as true foresight, true initiative.”
Source: The Wilderness
“The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth”
“It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.”
Source: Reviews
“Insights from data can be invaluable as feedback for decision-making, but should never be confused with being a proxy for the future, a predictor of the future, nor the future itself.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Given the inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, the cost of maintaining business as usual rises significantly.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Metaruptions cause widespread, self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions. As early changes spill over, impacts combine, propagate, and modify other elements within the system. Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavour, not a number-crunching exercise.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World