Roger Spitz 'The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption'
May 23, 2024
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Embracing a mindset of agency and hope, along with principles of Eastern philosophy, can help us navigate the challenges of a disruptive future.
Innovation for sustainable value creation involves embracing emergent thinking, open systems, and design fiction to drive transformative changes.
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The Importance of Agency and Hope in a Complex World
In a world characterized by constant change and uncertainty, it is crucial to embrace agency and hope. Understanding the concept of disruptive futures and the need for a mindset shift is key. The mindset of unvise, which acknowledges the volatile, intersecting, complex, and exponential nature of our world, can help us navigate the challenges we face. By exercising agency and embracing the principles of Eastern philosophy, such as impermanence, beginner's mind, and acceptance of imperfection, we can stay relevant and drive positive change. Science fiction also plays a role in problem-solving and envisioning futures. It helps us break free from conventional thinking and imagine alternative possibilities. With a focus on sustainability and problem-solving, we can ensure that we leave a positive impact on future generations.
Transformative Innovation and Systemic Change
Innovation is essential for addressing complex challenges and driving change. The concept of transformative innovation goes beyond point solutions to consider systemic transformation. Organizations like John Deere, Tesla, and Patagonia are examples of companies that understand the importance of innovation for sustainable value creation. They embrace emergent thinking, open systems, empowering agency, and addressing global challenges. By adopting business models as a system and leveraging design fiction, we can cultivate a mindset of problem-solving and drive transformative changes.
The Responsibility of Maintaining Sustainability
We have a responsibility to ensure sustainability for future generations. Sustainability means not degrading the planet, understanding the impacts of AI and automation, and addressing existential risks. Through problem-solving, future-focused actions, and a mindset rooted in agency and hope, we can prevent irreversible damage and create a positive future. It is essential to think beyond the status quo and embrace transformative changes for a sustainable and resilient world.
The Intersection of Science Fiction and Problem-Solving
Science fiction provides a platform for imaginative problem-solving and future envisioning. By combining science fiction with design thinking and foresight, we can break free from conventional thinking and explore new frontiers. Design fiction allows us to imagine possibilities without constraints and empowers us to find innovative solutions to complex challenges. Protopia, the middle ground between dystopia and utopia, offers a space where we can embrace emerging possibilities and shape a more hopeful future.
This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Roger Spitz, who is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute.
Based in San Francisco, he’s an authority on foresight, sustainability, and systemic change. He also publishes extensively on decision-making in uncertain and complex environments.
Techistential, Roger’s foresight practice, advises boards, leadership teams, and investors on sustainable value creation. In addition, he developed the Disruptive Futures Institute into a preeminent global executive education centre which helps organizations build capacity for futures intelligence, resiliency, transformative innovation, and strategic foresight.
During our conversation, we discuss his four-book collection “The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption” in which he lays the foundations to make sense of our increasingly complex, nonlinear, and unpredictable world - where disruption is no longer merely a single or recurring event, but a steady state, expanding its impact.
We discuss all of the above, and along the way, manage to cover topics ranging from Eastern philosophy to prediction to micro-learning to science-fiction.
I therefore hope you enjoy listening to the episode as much as I did recording it!
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