When reality flips upside down, science fiction can accelerate invention.
Disruption itself is generally neither good nor bad; its impact depends on one’s perspective and the nature and timing of one’s response.
For those intent on business as usual, the scope of value destruction is growing.
There is an inverse relationship between predictability and uncertainty, and an increasing cost of assuming a predictable world.
As the complex world we live in is deeply uncertain, we are better off building resilience to become adaptive and emergent rather than relying on crystal balls. Relying on probabilities, certainties, or near certainties will fail us.
Withstanding systemic disruption requires effectiveness over efficiency.
Systemic disruption will continue to drive significant shifts in business models, value creation, and value destruction.
If there is alignment among stakeholders, values, and actions, we have the agency to make things happen.
With limited accountability, misaligned incentives, and lagging legislation, today’s governance systems and structures do not align with the sustainability of humanity or the planet that hosts us.
Existential risks all have the ability to defy sustainability. There is no sustainability without mitigating existential risks.
Effective anticipatory governance is not possible without leadership teams and boards appreciating the range of potential responses to the respective levels of uncertainty.
Sustainable futures are not possible without futures intelligence, which in turn requires climate intelligence.
The only way to reinvent a business model for today’s complex world is to approach it like a system.
Tomorrow’s beef and dairy industries may face the same existential challenges as today’s fossil fuel industry.
The current boundaries, definitions, and clustering of separate and clearly delineated “industries” or “sectors” are disappearing.
In any situation, we can use our agency to define our purpose and seek meaning.
The future is not simply a continuation of the past, nor should education be. To serve its purpose, education must be relevant to the future, helpful, and fulfilling.
Our current education model threatens irrelevance for those who do not keep up, and it produces a massive number of people who are not keeping up.
Remaining relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop.
The power of an idea can never be understated, but an idea is worthless until other people know about it.