Top 280 Roger Spitz Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “One issue which exacerbates the Inflection Paradox is that innovations are analyzed through siloes, even though breakthroughs often occur across fields.”

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202. “Failure is a necessary ingredient to invention.”

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203. “The Red Queen Race necessitates being fast and astute. Speed alone is insufficient.”

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204. “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.”

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205. “Advances breed faster advances.”

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206. “Seek a fresh perspective by asking questions instead of relying on answers.”

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207. “Once we acknowledge the complex nature of the world, the notion of dissecting and reassembling entire industry constituents like Lego is illusory.”

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208. “Our navigational toolbox equips us with compasses calibrated for the unpredictable.”

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209. “When we connect with multiple perspectives and diverging views, we unleash inspiration.”

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210. “In the age of AI, we explore the agility needed for humans to stay relevant in the decision-making process.”

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211. “Storytelling sells a vision of the future.”

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212. “Our Disruptive Thinking Canvas provides a streamlined six-step process, consolidating the foundational principles of our work in one location.”

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213. “Over the past 35 years, the percentage of intangible assets almost tripled. While indispensable for value creation, the potential speed of obsolescence can dampen the resilience of intangible assets.”

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214. “Despite technological accelerations, change is generally slow, difficult, and unequally distributed.”

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215. “We need to become ‘perfect imperfectionists’.”

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216. “Decisions only exist when they are actioned.”

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217. “The world’s most valuable companies develop intellectual capital by investing smartly in their employees.”

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218. “Artists, musicians, composers and writers are all experiencing upheaval which could match that of a factory becoming automated.”

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219. “Anything that can be automated, cognified, decentralized, digitized, disintermediated or virtualized will be.”

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220. “Can you create protected spaces to experiment, tinker and answer important questions with no current answers?”

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221. “Systemic change can be unsettling due to its inherent complexity.”

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222. “Decentralized systems can offer more resilience and antifragility, as this single point of failure does not exist.”

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223. “The true impact of innovation isn’t in its disruptiveness; rather, it lies in its ability to ignite hope, unlock new possibilities and catalyse positive transformations across systems.”

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

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225. “Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavor, not a number-crunching exercise.”

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226. “How can you offer valuable solutions in new formats and models?”

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227. “Incumbents benefit more from the status quo than changes to the system.”

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228. “Improvisers are unaware of what is about to happen until it occurs, spontaneously creating as they go along.”

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229. “Be agile in decision-making – there may be no right answers.”

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230. “Abolishing the dualism between short-term and long-term goals necessitates iteration and the integration of feedback in our dynamic world.”

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231. “Reframing disruption is a key step where we respect what we don’t know while understanding the extent of agency we have.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “Big data does not predict anything beyond the assumption of an idealized situation in a stable system.”

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234. “The most challenging aspect of prognostication is that our complex world is deeply uncertain and becoming increasingly so.”

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235. “For instance, believing that AI can be a proxy for our own understanding and decision-making as we delegate more power to algorithms is superstupid. Perhaps AI is also superstupid, and may cause mistakes, wrong decisions, or misalignment. Further, consider AI ineptitude. What might appear as incompetence may simply be algorithms acting on bad data.”

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236. “Humans operate on millennia-old hardware. We can comprehend linear relationships, but have trouble processing accelerating rates of change.”

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237. “At some point, we may come to experience the collapse of trends in their entirety, replaced by the constant emergence of a multitude of micro-trends. Welcome to the end of trends.”

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238. “Wandering allows for exploration, constant trial and error, and imperfection.”

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239. “A feedback loop is a process in which the outputs of a system are cycled back as inputs.”

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240. “Relying on probabilities, certainties or crystal balls will fail us. Put simply, there is no data on the future.”

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241. “The eventuality of a global pandemic was certain, leaving uncertain only the timing and impact.”

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242. “Distinct sectors may no longer be discernible as industries intersect.”

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243. “At any point, the information available for decision-making is historical... The single most dangerous mistake is looking at disruption as isolated cases or independent episodic events.”

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244. “The permission to wander around, imagine, ask questions and challenge assumptions makes the magic happen.”

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245. “Beware of ‘futurewashing’, where empty promises about future actions replace taking actual steps today.”

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246. “The difference between a Black Swan and another Complex Five lies in the extent of our preparation, assumptions and imagination.”

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247. “Blurring the lines and subverting its recipients, information permeates every facet of society.”

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248. “The world is not made up of isolated controllable parts. And so the strings, wires and controls used to manage this illusionary world are obsolete.”

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249. “We will always need to navigate our unknown world, but we don’t have to do so in ignorance.”

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250. “Relying on predictions alone is dangerous.”

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