Systemic Disruption Quotes

“Everything in our world is constantly evolving - except our organizations, strategies, and governance structures”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“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

“The Red Queen Race necessitates being fast and astute. Speed alone is insufficient.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“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 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

“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

“Developing antifragility means focusing on the amplitude of potential consequences, not the probability.”
― 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

“In tight coupling, small ripples in quiet waters become tidal waves.”
― Roger spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The lines between sectors may be vanishing; when will the line between human and machine also fade?”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“After thousands of years of coevolution, humans are now inextricable from technology.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“What is the flow and impact of disinformation? How is the disinformation spreading and what are its effects?”
― Roger spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“In non-linear environments, assumptions amplify.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World