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Most organizations answer volatility with more strategy and tighter controls. That’s the reflex that breaks them. We’ve spent 25+ years – running parts of eBay, Mozilla, and Google, then working with hundreds of companies from startups to the Fortune 100 – learning what separates the ones that break from the ones that get stronger. We build that into your team. Keynotes, workshops, and advisory for people who actually have to do something on Tuesday.

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From the Briefing and the blog.

August 4, 2026

Closing the Foresight-Action Gap

The first person I heard use “future” as a verb was probably Douglas Rushkoff. That would’ve been about 2018, and Rushkoff was already years into making the argument that a better future depended on having more people actively involved in exploring and shaping futures. He wanted to push us all out of passivity and into agency, into the belief that the future didn’t have to be something that happened to us. It could be something we would meaningfully and intentionally co-create.

I was working for Singularity University then, and Rushkoff’s framing definitely resonated with me. Among the many things we were up to at SU, bringing more people into big conversations about the future and how they could lead as if…

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From the blog.

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Two operating systems for organizations under pressure.

OUTLEARN

OUTLEARN

A practical operating system for organizations that get stronger under stress. Five frameworks. No filler.

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Disrupt Disruption

Disrupt Disruption

How to decode the future, disrupt your industry, and transform your business. Also in Spanish and Portuguese.

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European Commission
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