The world we share is increasing in complexity, coupling, and pace of change. This means we have to prepare for multiple possible futures, more proactively monitor and understand signals of change, and realize that expertise in a single industry or domain is no longer sufficient.
As we race to catch up, we generate more and more data but fall further behind in the potential to learn and build meaning on which we can act.
We rely on helpful systems, interfaces, and algorithms, but their workings and design are as increasingly invisible as their implications on our autonomy and agency.
We live in our own digital and physical worlds. Technology and a divided economy, public policy, our institutions, as well as current and historical inequities mean this is true within our own team, organization, partners, and those we serve.
Finally, as we reach for more satisfying notions of purpose and impact and move away from narrow definitions of shareholder value and charity, defining and achieving success isn’t as straightforward.