Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Author: Joi Ito & Jeff Howe

Editor’s note: “The future,” as the author William Gibson once noted, “is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.” WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future.

The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one click or tweet or post away from each other. When these two revolutions joined, an explosive force was unleashed that is transforming every aspect of society, from business to culture and from the public sphere to our most private moments. Read more

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“These nine principles will promote fluidity and prepare us for a 10x mindset.”

If you just follow these nine steps, you’ll get to understand that leaderships and teams within organizations must embrace 10x mindset because the future is accelerated and crowdsourcing is one big part of this future.

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