Metaruption Quotes

“To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions.... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Physically agile, this squishy strategist and tentacled tactician uses its intelligence and agency to intuit situations, anticipate outcomes, invent solutions, and improvise, remaining relevant for nearly 300 million years.”
― Roger Spitz, 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.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“At some point, we may come to experience the collapse of trends in their entirety, replaced by the constant emergence of a multitude of micro-trends. Welcome to the end of trends.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions drive systemic disruption: The term metaruptions is an abbreviation of disruption with the prefix “meta.” A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions, including shifts in the notion of disruption itself. Metaruptions are characterized by the dynamic interactions of subordinate drivers of change. Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions. As initial changes spill over, these impacts combine to propagate and modify other elements within the system, ultimately disrupting the disruption itself.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions acknowledge the absence of answers to these questions, aiding in the distinction between explicit drivers of disruption and the intricate, emergent nature of their unpredictable interactions. Metaruptions defy rulebooks. We must envision the questions to be asked - and delve into the questions behind the questions. Metaruptions require adaptive problem finding and resilient solutions amidst incomprehensibility. The current decade will bring unparalleled messiness together with its opportunities. Learning to speak the language of metaruptions means staying engaged as paradigms shift to unravel these possibilities.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“While change can be tortuous, disruptions are powerful instruments to drive transformative outcomes. By understanding and leveraging the metaruptions at play, we can use their power for new beginnings. 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.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World