We must harness curiosity, creativity, and diverse perspectives, because today’s standard knowledge will not help us handle tomorrow’s surprises.
Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude and nature of potential consequences, not the probability.
Being anticipatory is to help make better decisions today in relation to tomorrow’s possible futures.
At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical, while the purpose of decisions lies in the future, which is inherently unknown.
In an era of predictable unpredictability, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, while at the same time bridging our longer-term strategy with the present.
When only the present is incentivized, the impact on the future tends to be ignored.
The courage to wander and fail is both necessary for our survival and key to outsized discoveries.
As you follow your passion, make it evident. Passion is naturally contagious.
Maybe the most important rule for creating miracles is breaking the rules!
There is no greater inspiration to a life than finding and following its valuable path.
In the West, ikigai is often used as a career-finding diagram. In Japan, ikigai is a way of life.
Each technological and scientific turning point evolves into an ontological consideration.
As the pace of change accelerates, industry life cycles, company life cycles, and product life cycles are compressed.
An organization, its business, sector, or purpose do not exist per se. Reality becomes its perception.
The permission to wander around, imagine, ask questions, and challenge assumptions allows magic to happen and new possibilities to emerge.
The magic happens when intersections create new combinations.
Instead of waiting for a system to coalesce into consistency, the successful actor must learn to operate in complex, uncertain, and ever-changing environments.
Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.
The single most dangerous mistake made by most decision-makers, organizations, and governments is looking at disruption as discrete, unique, episodic events.
Signals are fragments of the future that can be observed today.