Top 150 Roger Spitz Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Foresight is the capacity to investigate the drivers of change and explore possible futures systemically to inform short-term decision-making.”

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102. “Each technological and scientific turning point evolves into an ontological consideration.”

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103. “The only way to reinvent a business model for today’s complex world is to approach it like a system.”

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104. “Foresight does not seek to predict, but to drive imagination to inform decision-making and the actions required today in light of the potential futures ahead. Foresight prepares you for the swerves.”

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105. “When reality flips upside down, science fiction can accelerate invention.”

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106. “Tomorrow’s beef and dairy industries may face the same existential challenges as today’s fossil fuel industry.”

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107. “A new normal is establishing itself in which an undeclared or invisible war is fought entirely through algorithms, narratives, and manipulated media.”

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108. “The single most dangerous mistake is looking at disruption as isolated, special cases or independent single episodic events.”

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109. “The current boundaries, definitions, and clustering of separate and clearly delineated “industries” or “sectors” are disappearing.”

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110. “With limited accountability, misaligned incentives, and lagging legislation, today’s governance systems and structures do not align with the sustainability of humanity or the planet that hosts us.”

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111. “Master communicators listen to understand what people are saying, know how to use storytelling as a means of persuasion, and generate a gravitational pull towards their brands and offerings.”

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112. “The ultimate disruption would be an existential event so catastrophic that it leads to the extinction of humanity.”

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113. “The cow is facing its own existential crisis, as industrial cattle farming is being disrupted by alt proteins and plant-based milks that offer alternatives.”

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114. “None of these were “Black Swans,” which is the “go to” taxonomy for C-suites and policymakers justifying their surprise in the face of the assumptions they made about the world, signals they chose to ignore, and preparation they decided to skimp on.”

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115. “Effective anticipatory governance is not possible without leadership teams and boards appreciating the range of potential responses to the respective levels of uncertainty.”

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116. “If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder.”

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117. “Many of these technologies are proven, even beyond controlled environments, so their success will be driven by the value proposition, adoption, and ability to scale in the real world.”

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118. “The more you practice thinking on your feet and the more you prepare for future scenarios, the better you get at improvising when they arise.”

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119. “As algorithms become the most important decision-makers in our lives, the question is not only whether we can trust AI, but whether we can trust that we understand AI well enough.”

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120. “Techistentialism studies the nature of human beings, existence, and decision-making in our technological world.”

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121. “The future is hybrid. In a liminal world, there are no industry boundaries.”

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122. “Our agency emerges through choice. Applied to our actions, we must continue choosing, thinking of ourselves as creators of our futures.”

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123. “Harnessing the value of speculation and creativity, science fiction helps both individuals and organizations become and remain relevant in the face of our rapidly changing world.”

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124. “With complex, systemic challenges such as climate, there are no individual winners. Collectively addressing carbon impact means we all win, or we all lose.”

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125. “Our complex world is unpredictable and subject to dynamic change that can yield disproportionate and incomprehensible impacts. Relying on arbitrary assumptions does not help quantify the unquantifiable, nor make the unknowable known.”

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126. “Fast-changing environments drive new opportunities and gaps. Agility means finding those gaps and exploring them.”

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127. “Domino effects give way to butterfly effects given nonlinearity. “Outsized” conflates with “unpredictable” as a small cause yields disproportionate effects.”

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128. “The antifragile perfects being imperfect.”

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129. “Our current education model threatens irrelevance for those who do not keep up, and it produces a massive number of people who are not keeping up.”

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130. “The objective is not to get the future right. Rather, our work spurs better preparation for any of the futures which may arise.”

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131. “The single most dangerous mistake made by most decision-makers, organizations, and governments is looking at disruption as discrete, unique, episodic events.”

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132. “Sustainable futures are not possible without futures intelligence, which in turn requires climate intelligence.”

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133. “It is the outside actors who challenge assumptions and ask new questions that beat incumbents in imagining and innovating on what might come next.”

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134. “Withstanding systemic disruption requires effectiveness over efficiency.”

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135. “Remaining relevant is not a linear process, but a jumbled loop.”

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136. “Systemic disruption will continue to drive significant shifts in business models, value creation, and value destruction.”

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137. “The power of an idea can never be understated, but an idea is worthless until other people know about it.”

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138. “Exercising the muscles for long-term thinking can make you visionary.”

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139. “The world is not made up of separate parts operating in isolation. This reductionist view of an understandable, controlled, and predictable world is flawed. And so, the strings, wires, and controls used to manage this illusionary discrete world are obsolete.”

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140. “Entire industries, including strategic consulting, are built on selling you frameworks for defining, tiering, and quantifying levels of uncertainty, but these calculated bets or residual risks tend to be modeled on assumptions that make them useless, or even dangerous.”

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141. “To adapt to our complex world of weaponized information, maybe schools should teach data as we do languages.”

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142. “If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder. We must create innovative, fluid, and adventurous mindsets as well as social and economic networked ecosystems that strengthen from stress, random events, and shocks.”

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143. “Two of the most potent antidotes to relying entirely on assumptions are imagination and a small dose of humility. Humility is a place for learning.”

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144. “To shift the relationship between humans and machines, AI does not have to reach general artificial intelligence, nor become exceptional at handling complex systems. It just needs to become better than us.”

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145. “The magic happens when intersections create new combinations.”

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146. “Information affects the very fabric of society. It could be the primary weapon in the future of war, and it could determine the future of humanity.”

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147. “The paradox of short-term thinking is that it often ends up being more damaging and more expensive than longer-term thinking.”

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148. “In a systemic world, there is no such thing as a discrete or isolated event – impacts cascade and spill over.”

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149. “The degree of surprise or shock you experience from disruption correlates to your level of preparedness, perspectives, and your reliance on assumptions.”

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150. “Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world or reaching human-level intelligence, but rather the opposite where human beings think like idle machines – unable to connect the emerging dots of our complex, systemic world.”

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