What is this about?
We Built the World. Now We Must Reinvent It. As a professor, founding CEO of Duke Corporate Education, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, and Global Leader for PwC, I’ve spent a lifetime helping leaders shape the systems we live in. But today, those systems are breaking under the weight of profound trends the likes of which we have never before seen. Five years ago, my team and I saw the storm coming. We wrote Ten Years to Midnight to sound the alarm. Now, the tidal wave has hit—and the disruption is real. This site and my new book, Reinventing the World, are here to help you navigate what comes next. Whether you're leading a business, a community, or simply want to make a difference, you'll find practical insights, inspiring stories, and tools for action. Reinvention isn’t optional. It’s urgent. Let’s get to work.
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Profound Trends Changing Everything
Climate Change
Technology
Demography
Factured World
These four accelerating trends are rapidly diminishing the value of nearly everything we hold dear—our organizations, communities, homes, political and legal systems, careers, and even our children’s future. Everything is at stake. This book is not a blueprint for an ideal future—because anyone claiming to know exactly what that future should look like misunderstands the complexity of the challenges we face. Instead, it offers a practical guide to navigating the profound change these trends demand. It presents a process for those ready to reinvent the parts of the world they can influence. If enough of us rise to this challenge, we can create a far better future. Many have already begun—but not nearly enough. We are in a race against time, and currently, we are losing. But we don’t have to. Join me in shaping the world we want to leave for future generations.
A Guide to Essential Change
Reinventing the World
🌍 Reinventing the World
A Practical Guide to Urgent, Systemic Change
Reinventing the World is a bold, hands-on guide for anyone ready to take on the urgent challenge of transforming our systems—before it’s too late. This is not about predicting the future. It’s about building it.
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🔍 Understand the Trends
Learn how today’s accelerating trends are eroding value in our organizations, communities, and lives. Discover where new value can be created—and what truly matters most.
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🛠 Focus on What’s Real
Reinvention must begin with the domains that meet our most basic human needs: how we feed, move, build, make, care for, and defend ourselves—and the energy systems that power it all. These are the foundations of a livable future.
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🌐 Drive Ecosystem-Level Change
No one can do this alone. Learn how to lead change across entire ecosystems by building new capabilities in collaboration, influence, and systems thinking.
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⚡ Accelerate with Unprecedented Speed
We don’t have decades to fix what’s broken. Discover how to scale real-world solutions faster—by rethinking how investors, businesses, and governments act on time.
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🚨 Use Crises as Catalysts
Crises are no longer rare—they’re constant. Learn how to harness them to drive the change we need, rather than be derailed by them.