Are You Ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

Self-Driving Cars. Quantum Computing. Synthetic biology. Youth Unemployment & the Lost Generation. Stagnant Wages. The Skills Gap. Billion dollar Start-Ups. Mass Layoffs. The Sharing Economy. Gig Economy. Untold opportunity or economic collapse. It’s enough to make your head spin!

We are living in a time of unparalleled change and contradictions. At the same time we have amazing changes technology and business models that are providing opportunities and riches for some and leaving others behind, frustrated, confused and angry.

Not since the mid-1800s have we seen such a radical change in labor markets, business models and political systems. During that period Charles Dickens famously captured the dichotomy of the times that seems to fit just as well today.

“It was the best of time, it was the worst of times . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…”

~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Looking back it is relatively easy to see the effects of the Industrial Revolution playing out. The entrepreneurial craftsmen, farmers and laborers being…