Futures Thinking Quotes

“We need the humility to acknowledge that we may not fully understand the net impacts or timing [of AI].”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Decision-makers have more information than ever before, but the speed of change means they have less time to make decisions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“We don’t overemphasize the future at the expense of the present, because the present is our only tangible reality. We imagine the future as a tool to inform today’s actions and short-term decisions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“We need to become ‘perfect imperfectionists’.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Big data does not predict anything beyond the assumption of an idealized situation in a stable system.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“This is a guide to embracing the futures with resilience and foresight.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“In a VUCA world, if you’re not consciously confused, you’re ignorant. If you’re not preparing, you’re negligent.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Foresight does not hold a crystal ball. It prepares you for the swerves. The future of prediction is imagination.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Our Disruptive Thinking Canvas provides a streamlined six-step process, consolidating the foundational principles of our work in one location.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions - we have the power to shape our own futures.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Uncertainty is an inherent trait of the future.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“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

“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

“Nothing is permanent but impermanence. At the same time, everything is
in constant change.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The whole is not merely different from the sum of its parts - the whole lacks a clear relationship to the parts’ sum.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Beware of ‘futurewashing’, where empty promises about future actions replace taking actual steps today.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world, but rather the opposite, where humans start responding like idle machines - unable to connect the emerging dots of our UN-VICE world.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Emergencies are not equally distributed. The degree of anticipatory thinking we apply will shape the scope, nature and impact of the emergencies we face.”
― Roger spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The future does not exist today, so we have the opportunity to imagine it, shape it and navigate towards it.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Scenarios help solve problems differently because they can illuminate new possibilities and ignite hope.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“If we are not thoughtful in becoming AAA, this future scenario could see human agency replaced, with decisions made by algorithms instead of humans.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Being anticipatory allows us to better envision and drive the futures ahead.”
― 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

“ʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ, ᴜɴʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴄʏ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ. ʜᴇ/ꜱʜᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ꜰᴀɪʟꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴇᴍʙʀᴀᴄᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴏɴʟʏ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ ᴠᴜᴄᴀ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ”
― Amos Lau, asian marketer

“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