Think Like A Futurist: Respond, Don’t React

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

AI is reshaping industries and jobs faster than most of us can keep up. But futurist Amy Webb argues we have more control over what lies ahead than we might think. In today’s episode, Jessi Hempel sits down with Amy, founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group and one of the world’s leading experts on strategic foresight. For nearly two decades, Amy’s annual tech trends report has helped leaders understand what’s coming next, and what to do about it. Amy and Jessi explore the concept of creative destruction—the economic force that disrupts old systems to make room for new ones—and what today’s wave of AI-driven change means for workers, leaders, and organizations. Amy and Jessi discuss: What creative destruction really means, and why we should embrace it How AI and emerging technologies are transforming industries faster than many leaders expect How leaders can strategically prepare for trends and crises, rather than merely reacting to them Why organizations need to invest in foresight and long-term thinking How individuals can position themselves to adapt and thrive during rapid transformation Follow Amy Webb and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Learn more about The Future Today Strategy Group Watch Amy’s 2026 SXSW talk We will be launching the Hello Monday book club soon. If you’re interested in joining, send us an email at hellomonday@linkedin.com

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0:00.0	I don't believe that the future is foretold.
0:02.5	I believe, I know, that the future gets created by the decisions that we make in the present.
0:08.5	That is the definition of agency.
0:10.7	It means that with every decision, you are influencing a future that's yet to arrive.
0:18.2	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.
0:22.6	Today we're going to talk about the future.
0:24.6	Our guest is the futurist Amy Webb, and I met her 15 years ago when I was a tech reporter at Fortune and she advised Time Inc., the company that owned Fortune.
0:34.6	Her annual tech trends report has been on my required reading list ever since.
0:40.5	She's one of the most trusted voices in business because more often than not, she is right about the trends that she calls.
0:47.6	At South by Southwest, where she gives a talk every year, she is truly a celebrity.
0:52.7	Like people line up around the block for her talk.
0:55.9	The most recent one was just this past weekend.
0:58.8	Here's Amy Webb.
1:02.8	So let's actually start with your most recent LinkedIn post
1:06.5	because I pulled it up on my way to the office today.
1:08.5	And you were, you're like,
1:10.5	it was like two weeks ago. But you are setting the stage for what many people know you for, which is your South by Southwest talk. And you were laying out a theme for 2026. And I think that theme, as I remember, it was creative destruction. It's the kind of thing that makes you shudder.
1:28.7	You're like, I don't want that to be the theme for 2020.
1:30.9	That does not.
1:31.7	That feels a little scary.
1:34.9	In laying out this term, you stepped back and you said,
1:38.4	look, this has happened before.
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