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Today’s scenario prompt: reinvention must be the default setting
Accenture’s Pulse of Change Index reports a 183% increase in the rate of disruption in just four years. Fore example, we are now uploading monkey brains into neuromorphic supercomputers. The real risk isn’t disruption itself. It’s your lack of a reinvention operating system — a future fitness discipline that defines your strategic lens, builds an information dashboard, raises collective situational awareness, and uses scenario prompts as a weekly leadership workout. Reinvention cannot be a project. It has to be your default setting.
The CEO question
If disruption is compounding at 183%, what would it look like if reinvention became your organisation’s default behaviour.
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