NIGEL
DALTON
Social Scientist
Thoughtworks
About NIGEL
Nigel Dalton has enjoyed 35-years as a technologist, evangelist, inventor, startup-tragic, lean practitioner, and corporate executive. He worked around the globe in startups, scaleups and global enterprises - for AXA, Lonely Planet, then as CIO and Chief Inventor for REA Group.
Nowadays, Nigel is a social scientist for ThoughtWorks, startup co-founder in Melbourne, a Director of the Lean Enterprise Institute, and Chair of Lean Enterprise Australia. With a foot in each of Australia and NZ, he might just be Haumoana’s leading reader of books with the word ‘future’ somewhere in the title.
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"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," said Mike. "Gradually, and then suddenly."
It's a century since Ernest Hemingway wrote that paragraph in The Sun Also Rises, and it foretells the exact world we face in the remaining years of the 2020s. To thrive in our next decade, there are 4 slides that should be in your 2025 Organisation Plan - but most likely are not - all charting forces that are currently advancing gradually, but will reveal themselves with a suddenness that will shock most. In this talk Nigel will reveal those forces, and the opportunities that lie amidst the chaos that will ensue.