Jurie G. Rossouw Executive Resilience. Neuroscience for the Business of Disruption

We are heading for uncertain times. And uncertainty is one thing that the brain doesn’t like.This uncertainty is fuelled by a growing drive for businesses to not just innovate, but to disrupt. The result? Technological capabilities that are quickly advancing towards the automation of every job on the market.Millions of workers around the world are starting to ask a simple question: “What happens to me when my job gets automated?”Manufacturing and agricultural industries are well-versed in the consequences of automation. For the services industry, this is relatively new. As machine learning and AI capabilities grow, it becomes viable to automate even well-protected jobs.The result is growing uncertainty. On a global scale, the impact on the human psyche is fear. Fear that renders us vulnerable to policies which can destabilise our global society. In organisations, this fear creates cultures of blame and stagnation, stifling innovation.Our trajectory of technological advancement is inevitable. We cannot remove the coming uncertainty. However, uncertainty doesn’t need to create fear. We can change how we react so that we embrace and even thrive on this uncertainty.An interconnected set of crucial life skills, collectively called resilience, is the answer to these uncertain times.For the first time, insights from neuroscience, psychological resilience, and workplace culture are combined to discover the origin of sustainable disruptive innovation. We present a holistic model for r...