Metaruptions Quotes

“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.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Abolishing the dualism between short-term and long-term goals necessitates iteration and the integration of feedback in our dynamic world.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“In these paradigm shifts, addressing individual parts of a problem will not resolve anything.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Consider systemic interconnections and next-order implications from initial change.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Long-term thinking fleshes out short-term opportunities.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The roles we play today - an explorer, pioneer or settler - affect all the horizons.”
― 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