"The Ordeal of Change" by Dee Hock

Dee Hock, the founder of Visa, illuminates one of the major challenges we are facing: the COMPRESSION of time and events. Everything around us is changing so fast, but humans and our organizations are not keeping pace with this rate of change. This video features a quote from this blog post by Dee Hock: www.deewhock.c...
The concept of accelerating change helps explains the "Complexity Gap" (the increasing mismatch between the world's complexity and our own.) In our rapidly changing world, success is no longer associated with an ability to withstand change, but rather the capacity to be transformed by it (adapt, evolve, develop, learn, change).