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From the Stage: The Recycled Recession Headlines
Every downturn, I play a little game with my audience. Speaking to dental professionals, I read out a series of grim economic headlines: banks facing meltdown, a mortgage crisis…
From the Stage: The Jobs of 2036
At the IIA/ISACA GRC Conference in August 2026, I did something a little unusual. I invented a conference agenda for 2036 — complete with fictional sessions and speakers — and…
From the Stage: Cardboard People and Plasma People
At a conference of the people who design in-store displays, I went to the cocktail party the night before. On one side of the room, a group was deep in conversation about trends…
From the Stage: Who Owns the Future of Innovation?
Speaking to the banking technology community at Finastra, I described a period in which so many trends were arriving at once that industries were rewriting their own timelines for…
From the Stage: Legacy Doesn't Matter
Opening the EY National Tax Conference in Montreal, I described what I hear in boardrooms everywhere, from Disney to ESPN: "It is so overwhelming that increasingly legacy doesn't…
From the Stage: The Era of Acceleration
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I opened with the most important thing to understand about the future: "it's probably going to happen faster than we think. Because we…
From the Stage: The Dive-In Movie
One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector and surround sound by the pool and we held a dive-in movie for the neighbourhood. I blogged about…
From the Stage: The Crazy Becomes Routine
In under forty seconds, this is my view of the period we're living through: "the imagination machine of people worldwide is turning on in a way which is simply unprecedented."…
From the Stage: Change Your Future Before It Changes You
It's the line I've used more than any other, and here it is in its shortest form. After describing a world where companies that don't yet exist will build products not yet…
From the Stage: Align to the Future or Fight It
Closing my keynote for Black & Veatch, I described what disruption really does: it changes the products you make, the services you deliver, the skills you need and the competitors…
From the Stage: Timing Is Everything
Speaking to the American Truck Dealers, I shared what I call my fourth rule of the future. We usually know what is coming. The hard part is when. "The challenge is this, when does…
From the Stage: What This Series Is About
For more than 30 years I've stood on stages around the world with the same message. Here it is, compressed into a couple of minutes: "The challenges are vast, the trends are…
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