Top Highlights

• That system is now breaking apart. The top-down knowledge and leadership structures that have long supported society’s dogged pursuit of efficiency in repetition are collapsing. Technology and the organized movements that have torn down the walls of society have transformed the complexion and complexity of the global strategic landscape— flattening...
• When change was a game for a few leaders, keeping up with the speed of change was a challenge for the rest of us. Now, change is a game of the many, and that is causing explosive disruption on a constant basis.
• Change is no longer linear and faster. It’s explosive and omnidirectional, and it’s bouncing off of all the other change forces ricocheting all around us.
• New technology and a new mindset have made it so that our private cars can be turned into taxis, our homes into hostels, and our things into commodities for trade or sale in the online marketplace.
• Repetition-based jobs are becoming obsolete— for example, customer kiosks in fast-food restaurants require fewer service workers to take food orders, even as algorithmic-driven lending is transforming the financial services industry— while difficult-to-automate jobs with varying tasks and responsibilities are on the rise.3 Self-driving automation t...