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#1

“Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system for our lives and projects.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: antifragile, antifragility, resilience, risk

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#2

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude and nature of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: antifragility, resilience, risk

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#3

“Relevance is both an antidote to avoid and a method for driving disruption.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: agency, decision-making, freedom, relevance

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#4

“Maintaining relevance requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: agency, decision-making, freedom, relevance

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#5

“Disruption creates more agency, freedom, and choice.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: agency, choices, disruption, freedom

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#6

“Alignment is an evolutionary process, which involves continuous questioning and searching.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: alignment, innovation, searching

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#7

“To achieve real innovation, one needs to imagine novel ideas, question assumptions, and offer diverse perspectives. Aligning values while challenging conventional wisdom creates new solutions.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: alignment, innovation, wisdom

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#8

“Understanding the nature of change is critical for overcoming resistance.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: alignment, change, innovation, values

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#9

“Ultimately, under the veneer of data-driven assumptions, strategic planning can be arbitrary in our deeply uncertain world.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: assumptions, planning, strategy, uncertainty

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#10

“Disruption 3.0 compounds systemic disruptive effects. As complex environments are hyperconnected, hazards and opportunities interact multiplicatively.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: disruption, disruption-quotes, foresight

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#11

“The insights derived from data can be invaluable as a feedback loop to decision-making, but should never be confused with being a proxy for the future, a predictor of the future, nor the future itself.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: decision-making, foresight, strategy

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#12

“The world’s consultants spend their time advising on restructuring, optimizing processes and inventories, finding every possible source of cost savings and cost synergies. At the same time, the greatest cost of all is ignored: the cost of assumptions. The cost of relying on assumptions is going through the roof.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: assumptions, business-advice, consulting

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#13

“We must harness curiosity, creativity, and diverse perspectives, because today’s standard knowledge will not help us handle tomorrow’s surprises.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: creativity, curiosity, decision-making, problem-solving

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#14

“Being anticipatory is to help make better decisions today in relation to tomorrow’s possible futures.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: anticipation, decision-making, foresight

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#15

“At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical, while the purpose of decisions lies in the future, which is inherently unknown.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: anticipation, decision-making, futures-thinking

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#16

“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.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: agility, decision-making, emergence, opportunity

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#17

“When only the present is incentivized, the impact on the future tends to be ignored.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: decision-making, incentives

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#18

“The courage to wander and fail is both necessary for our survival and key to outsized discoveries.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: creativity, curiosity, passion

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#19

“As you follow your passion, make it evident. Passion is naturally contagious.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: creativity, intuition, passion

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#20

“Maybe the most important rule for creating miracles is breaking the rules!”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: audacity, breaking-the-rules, innovation, miracles

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#21

“In the West, ikigai is often used as a career-finding diagram. In Japan, ikigai is a way of life.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: eastern-philosophy, ikigai, japan

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#22

“There is no greater inspiration to a life than finding and following its valuable path.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

tags: curiosity, life-lessons, serendipity, wisdom

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#23

“With time, all assumptions magnify and amplify; wrong assumptions cascade and blow up.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: assumptions, assumptions-quote, foresight

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#24

“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.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: disruption, futures-thinking, relevance, systems-thinking

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#25

“In a systemic world, there is no such thing as a discrete or isolated event - impacts cascade and spill over.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: complex-adaptive-systems, complex-systems, futures-thinking, systems-thinking

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#26

“Horizon scanning enables you to catch a glimpse of the future by observing fragments embedded in the present.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: foresight, futures-thinking, signals, uncertainty

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#27

“Techistentialism studies the nature of human beings, existence, and decision-making in our technological world.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: artificial-intelligence, decision-making, existentialism, foresight, technology

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#28

“As advances in AI, machine learning, and neural networks evolve, incomprehensibility will reach even higher levels - exposing these complex systems to both human and machine errors.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: artificial-intelligence, automation, decision-making, technology

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#29

“As AI continues to develop, machines could become increasingly legitimate in autonomously making strategic decisions, an area where humans currently lead.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: artificial-intelligence, automation, decision-making, technology

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#30

“Could the most fundamental edge humans have over machines be irrationality?”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

tags: artificial-intelligence, decision-making, irrationality, technology

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