Move into the strangeness
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Popular international speaker John Sanei shares how to adapt to transformation.
In the September webinar series, popular futurist strategist John Sanei shared insights into the rapid pace of change confronting many during a talk titled 鈥淭rans-For-Motion: Transforming at constant pace into the unknown future鈥. Although he admitted that no one can fully identify what the future would look like, he shared patterns of change, the psychology around change and how attendees could develop teams to face big challenges ahead.
Sanei has received global recognition for his keynote talks and masterclasses as Africa鈥檚 first Singularity University faculty member, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education and an associate partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He is the co-founder of the School of Modern Wisdom and The Expansive Podcast.
鈥淭he world has developed a system that needs to have absolute outcomes and when this not possible 鈥 it leads to anxiety. Our brains like certainty and predictability.鈥 He said a 鈥渕egatrend鈥 was the 鈥減overty of reimagination鈥. 鈥淭here is no going back but moving into the strangeness is actually better for all of us,鈥 he said.
He suggested that businesses need to move from 鈥渃omplicated鈥 to 鈥渃omplex鈥 systems, which requires new skill sets.
His full talk can be viewed here: