BONUS FREE ACCESS: The Covid-19 crisis is forcing (and allowing) us to take a wider view, beyond efficiency and optimisation. Agile is the new efficient and so-called digital transformation is not really about technology – it’s about who we are, our personality and our character. Resilience is a mindset – it is first about who you are, and only then about what you do.

This is a really well-produced video keynote entitled “From Efficiency to Resilience and Agility”, excerpted from my new Future Ready Executive Program (FREP). With ENG, ES and PT Captions.

“It was supposed to be a radical rethinking of capitalism, but it’s become a mere accounting tool…” ***The future of capitalism will be one of my main focus areas in 2021… stay tuned

‘Capitalism is both the greatest source of prosperity and progress in human history and the greatest threat to it. This paradox is at the heart of the case for reinvention.’ Be sure to download the Volans report on Vision 2050.

“Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Without agreement about some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that would allow them to defend themselves. If we lose the institutions that produce facts that are pertinent to us, then we tend to wallow in attractive abstractions and fictions…  Social media is no substitute: It supercharges the mental habits by which we seek emotional stimulation and comfort, which means losing the distinction between what feels true and what actually is true*

The threat of the pandemic actually helped push through the European Green Deal.

This report was just released and the results are quite interesting, Check out my highlights and comments below. “After a 2020 that is rated as the worst year for some time, people around the world are looking forward to 2021 for their country, their families and themselves, according to a new Ipsos’ Global Advisor poll […]

Via Goodreads, this is only a partial list:)) 284 books in my Kindle queue:)

This was a great event and we will publish the entire keynote on my Youtube channel in a few days as well; be sure to subscribe and hit the ‘notify me’ – bell on YT:)) This is the edited recording of my public q&a session at the IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT in […]

Covid-19 has changed and continues to change everything. And the speed of change and innovation is only accelerating. For businesses to successfully navigate these massive waves of disruption is going to require a whole new way of thinking about the world, the future, and the economy writ large.

Humanity will change more in the next 10 years than the previous 100 years. Where are the jobs of the future, and what skills will we need?

As the world is rapidly going digital and virtual, I believe it actually is our humanity that needs the most attention, and that it will be our humanness which will make all the difference.

Computers will inevitably outpace humans in mere processing power, logic and efficiency, and the resulting ‘End of Routine’ is a certainty. Therefore I believe that the ticket to our future is to become more human, not less. Not to compete with the machines but to use their increasing competence to get tedious commodity tasks done better and faster – as a tool but not as a purpose. Imho, machines, computers and algorithms should have competence not consciousness...

From Sept 2020 – just in case you missed it

Gerd Leonhard, futurista alemão que lidera a The Futures Agency na Suíça, escreveu recentemente que “os próximos dez anos vão determinar o nosso futuro enquanto espécie.”