Quotes About Disruption

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:

Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise.

Rules are meant to be broken.

It's the outsiders who change the world.

Sometimes it's good to shake up the status quo. You just have to make sure that when you turn society on its ear, you don't end up on your coutoure-covered backside.--vivian

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

Si todo parece ir según el plan, intenta encontrar algo que hayas pasado por alto y que podría mandarlo todo al garete».

The life he'd known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.

If there is one thing you must understand about the future, it is that not only is the world changing; the rate of change is increasing at an exponential pace.

The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.

Don't underestimate technology.

Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.

Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

I love that people think the world is even halfway ready for what we about to bring.

fond of offending his superiors and is fond of making revolutions has never been known.

Lockdown simply means enjoyment for rich and harassment for poor

A man came up the far side of the street, walking neither slow nor fast ,not turning his head, as he paused, and quite surely not noticing them; they watched him until he was out of sight, and Rufus felt, and was sure that his father felt, that though there was no harm in the man and he had as good a right as they did to be there, minding his own business, their journey was interrupted from the moment they first saw him until they saw him out of sight.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.