Top 150 Roger Spitz Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Ultimately, under the veneer of data-driven assumptions, strategic planning can be arbitrary in our deeply uncertain world.”

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2. “Disruption creates more agency, freedom, and choice.”

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3. “The courage to wander and fail is both necessary for our survival and key to outsized discoveries.”

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4. “Disruption 3.0 compounds systemic disruptive effects. As complex environments are hyperconnected, hazards and opportunities interact multiplicatively.”

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5. “As you follow your passion, make it evident. Passion is naturally contagious.”

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6. “Maintaining relevance requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”

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

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8. “Being anticipatory is to help make better decisions today in relation to tomorrow’s possible futures.”

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9. “Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”

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10. “Disruption is generally neither new nor bad; it is simply accelerating. The world’s fundamental paradigms are increasingly changing.”

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11. “With time, all assumptions magnify and amplify; wrong assumptions cascade and blow up.”

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12. “The insights derived from data can be invaluable as a feedback loop to decision-making, but should never be confused with being a proxy for the future, a predictor of the future, nor the future itself.”

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13. “When only the present is incentivized, the impact on the future tends to be ignored.”

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14. “In the West, ikigai is often used as a career-finding diagram. In Japan, ikigai is a way of life.”

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15. “Building antifragile foundations is like building an immune system for our lives and projects.”

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16. “Maybe the most important rule for creating miracles is breaking the rules!”

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17. “At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical, while the purpose of decisions lies in the future, which is inherently unknown.”

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18. “Understanding the nature of change is critical for overcoming resistance.”

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19. “We must harness curiosity, creativity, and diverse perspectives, because today’s standard knowledge will not help us handle tomorrow’s surprises.”

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20. “Relevance is both an antidote to avoid and a method for driving disruption.”

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21. “To achieve real innovation, one needs to imagine novel ideas, question assumptions, and offer diverse perspectives. Aligning values while challenging conventional wisdom creates new solutions.”

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22. “Today, we are faced with profound questions on the most fundamental features of our world, about the essence of existence and human life in the not-so-distant future.”

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23. “There is no greater inspiration to a life than finding and following its valuable path.”

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24. “Alignment is an evolutionary process, which involves continuous questioning and searching.”

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25. “The world’s consultants spend their time advising on restructuring, optimizing processes and inventories, finding every possible source of cost savings and cost synergies. At the same time, the greatest cost of all is ignored: the cost of assumptions. The cost of relying on assumptions is going through the roof.”

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26. “In an era of predictable unpredictability, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, while at the same time bridging our longer-term strategy with the present.”

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27. “Relying on arbitrary assumptions does not help quantify the unquantifiable, nor make the unknowable known.”

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28. “Most school systems reward repeating the right answers to known problems, but doesn’t that simply teach learners to rely on questions that have clearly derivable answers?”

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29. “With the world hyperconnected through smartphones as extensions of our bodies, today it is possible to package, productize, and transmit information instantly at scale to the entire planet.”

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30. “Incremental climate adaptation needs to shift to exponential climate adaptation.”

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31. “The importance of epistemic security and cybersecurity is now comparable to that of national security.”

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32. “Society is on the road to the paradox of polarization and uniformity.”

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33. “People will deem certain new ideas impossible, until they become part of everyday life.”

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34. “Instead of lauding roles, jobs, positions, and promotions, become an expert in imperfection, disrupting yourself to uncover new bugs, test new ideas, and explore new versions of yourselves and your life.”

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35. “Existential risks all have the ability to defy sustainability. There is no sustainability without mitigating existential risks.”

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36. “Signals are fragments of the future that can be observed today.”

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37. “When new connections are made with a multiplicity of perspectives and diverging points of view, inspiration is unleashed.”

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38. “Disclosures that quantify climate risks can help realign decision-making towards building a resilient climate economy. This creates positive feedback loops to drive further adaptive measures.”

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39. “As the complex world we live in is deeply uncertain, we are better off building resilience to become adaptive and emergent rather than relying on crystal balls. Relying on probabilities, certainties, or near certainties will fail us.”

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40. “As we destabilize the planetary systems we rely on for survival, the strain on our planet mirrors that in societies. These imbalances reinforce each other, amplifying the challenges.”

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41. “Instead of waiting for a system to coalesce into consistency, the successful actor must learn to operate in complex, uncertain, and ever-changing environments.”

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42. “When our minds are truly relaxed and empty, they can often solve our most intractable problems.”

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43. “As we evaluate the opportunities and risks that emanate from the scenarios developed, we scrutinize the potential consequences of the different alternative futures. This allows us to build resilience and the capacity to sustain even the most serious impacts and outcomes.”

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44. “The bar to become and remain relevant is higher than ever. You need to run that much faster to stay in the same place, or even likely end up behind.”

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45. “Scenarios are dynamic living narratives, and require updating as the world itself evolves.”

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46. “Failovation is the sort of failure that generates innovation, potentially prompting a standing ovation.”

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47. “With AI drawing art, creating music, and writing, human creativity is being challenged. Artists, musicians, composers, and writers are all experiencing upheaval which could match that of a factory becoming automated.”

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48. “Human capital is without a doubt the most important intangible asset to develop, and will continue to be.”

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49. “The future is not simply a continuation of the past, nor should education be. To serve its purpose, education must be relevant to the future, helpful, and fulfilling.”

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50. “For most of human history, space was unachievable; now it’s merely dangerous.”

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