From Warning to Operating Manual: Roger Spitz's Disrupt With Impact Defines the Era of Metaruptions 18 Months On

Spitz's Award-Winning Frameworks Recognized as Global Standard Amid 2026's Compounding Systemic Shocks

Mar. 30, 2026 at 6:35am by Ben Kaplan

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Eighteen months since the publication of Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World (Kogan Page), the Disruptive Futures Institute reports a significant shift in how global organizations navigate nonlinear change. Spitz's body of work, which was once categorized as provocative strategic foresight, has become a mandatory operating manual for 2026, adopted by boards, academic curricula, and the world's most influential policy forums to navigate our unpredictable times.

Why it matters

The most significant validation of Spitz's research is the transition from 'Disruption 2.0' - the Silicon Valley model of entrant-incumbent dynamics - to 'Disruption 3.0,' or what Spitz coined as Metaruptions. These represent deep, interconnected, transdisciplinary system shifts arising from technological, ecological, geopolitical, economic, and societal interactions, requiring a new operating system for unpredictability.

The details

Released in September 2024, the book authored by Roger Spitz issued a systemic warning: the era of linear trends has ended. Today, as the global landscape experiences a convergence of geopolitical, technological, and economic shocks, the research and prescience detailed in the text have moved from foresight to realized volatility. The Disruptive Futures Institute observes that the frameworks developed in the book, such as the AAA Framework (Antifragile, Anticipatory, Agility), are now being widely adopted across business, education, and policy forums.

  • Disrupt With Impact was published in September 2024.
  • The book has received several major awards over the past 18 months, including the 2024 Foreword Indies Book of the Year, the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards, and the 2025 Readers' Favorite Business Book of the Year.

The players

Roger Spitz

The author of Disrupt With Impact and the founder and chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco. Spitz has been recognized as one of the world's top futurists, ranking #15 on the Global Gurus World's Top 30 Futurist Professionals for 2026.

Disruptive Futures Institute

A San Francisco-based organization that pioneers futures intelligence, offering strategic foresight, practitioner research, and education to empower leaders to shape their futures in an unpredictable world.

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What they’re saying

“The world has caught up to the warning. Leaders long clung to trends as the currency of foresight, but 2026 has proven that trends are a rearview-mirror distraction. We are now managing the interplay of systemic collapses and breakthroughs.”

— Roger Spitz, Chair, Disruptive Futures Institute

What’s next

Spitz has launched the 'Visionary Trilogy' global tour, which translates the core pillars of Disrupt With Impact into actionable strategic intelligence for 2026-2027. The tour focuses on three transformative shifts: the mindset shift to become visionary in an unpredictable world, the intelligence shift to upgrade human decision-making in the age of AI, and the leadership shift from foresight to inspiring transformational futures.

The takeaway

Disrupt With Impact has evolved from a bestselling book into an operational compass for unpredictability, with its frameworks being widely adopted by boards, academic curricula, and policy forums to navigate the 'Metaruptions' of the coming decade. In a world defined by systemic unpredictability, Disrupt With Impact is no longer a warning - it is the operating manual.