– Bernie Kelly –
Evolution or revolution – either way you better get moving to avoid disruption.
Within leadership circles, there is debate about whether the industry is going through evolution or revolution. Don’t let conversations on evolution fool you that it is going to be more comfortable.
Did you know that evolution itself is an accelerating pattern?
At a fundamental level, life on earth must compete to stay alive. Predators and prey are in a never-ending race to evolve new abilities to avoid extinction. Rabbits that evolve longer ears to hear foxes survive more. Foxes that develop stronger legs to run faster, catch more rabbits and don’t starve. And so on.
“If a competitor makes an improvement, you must make an equal or greater improvement just to stay neck-and-neck with them. Stay the same and you fall behind.”
~ Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen Effect
In other words, evolution is a double-edged sword. On one hand, innovations increase survival. On the other hand, they also increase competition, which reduces survival.
Evolution does not rest on its laurels. It accelerates.
Source: https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/google-director-of-engineering-this-is-how-fast-the-world-will-change-in-ten-years-6f1e653b5374
Evolution, fuelled by the information drivers in the second half of the exponential curve paradigms, will churn at an accelerated rate.
Thinking about our change-fitness to meet the pace of change like we did during the first half of the exponential curves will be totally out of sync with the conditions.
