The Transformation Decade: 2010-2020

Since that date in columns and speeches around the world I have found that not only was this forecast correct but that this definition helps people to better contextually understand the ever greater amount and accelerating speed of changeCompanies understand that if they are not changing to some degree the nature shape or character of their businesses that they will not only fall behind marketplace changes competitive changes and customer changes they may not be in business in 2020 Many CEOs and others who have heard me speak about this Transformation Decade have requested that I write more indepth about it Well now I have In my new book quot Entering the Shift Age quot Part Three is all about this amazing ten year period It is available by itself as an inexpensive minieBook The Collapse of Legacy ThinkingHumanity has largely powered into the 21st century thinking 20th century thoughts Similar to McLuhan39s statement that most people drive down the freeway of life looking in the rearview mirror most people have been looking back to the way things were or worked in the 20th century No wonder we can39t seem to solve the new global problems We are looking at them through the filter of old conceptual constructsWe all suffer from seeing the present amp8211 and possible futures through the filter of legacy thinking Your mentor taught you something in the 1990s your father told you about reality you read a great business book in the 1980s and then these quottruthsquot became locked down in your mind and therefore strongly shaped your views on most subjects It is as though you are seeing the future through windows of a house that was built in the past In the Shift Age and in the 21st century we must all take a look at the thoughts we think and ask ourselves when we first thought them If our perceptions of the world were formed in the last 25 years of the 20th century they might not all be relevant here at the end of 2012The Transformation Decade is and will be a time when vast amounts of legacy thinking will fall away This is preparation for what Whitehead called quotcreative destructionquotThe First Decade of 21st Century Thoughtamp160In part due to the collapse of legacy thinking 20102020 will be looked back upon as the first decade of 20th century thought Future historians in say 2100 will look back and point to the 20102020 decade as the first decade when humanity started to clearly think 21st century thoughts and started to therefore shape the remainder of the centuryThink on the phrase quot20th centuryquot Whatever comes to mind the century of science the American Century the century of world wars all began 19141918 This was WWI the Russian revolution was 191718 the General Theory of Relativity was published in 1916 and the maps of Europe and the Middle East were largely shaped at this time Prior to WWI America was an isolationist largely agricultural country After 1918 the country was one of the supreme nation states on the global stageThis is one of the main reasons that 20102020 is so exciting and disorienting The Transformation Decade is the time that an entire new century of thought is beginningGeneral Trends and Forecastsamp160There is not enough space here to write about the major trends and my forecasts for the rest of this decade so I will just list them here Some are obvious others perhaps not yet clear to you The Concept of Place continues to be eviscerated A major generation shift takes root Biology and Technology merge ever more Spaceship Earth becomes a more widely held mindset Creativity is a dominant value Globalism ascends nationalism declines Governments shake loose many of their Industrial Age structures Energy moves into its systemic stageThese dynamic trends and many others will largely shape new thoughts ideas solutions conflicts and businesses here in the Transformation DecadeTo learn more about the minieBook quotThe Transformation Decade 20102020 please go hereDavid Houle is a futurist strategist and speaker He has always been slightly ahead of the curve Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment Most recently David is a featured contributor to Oprahcom Check is out here wwwoprahcomdavidhoule David can be contacted at DavidDavidHoulecomRead all Davidamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Evolution ShiftCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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