Reinventing the World

Reinventing the Worldicon

by Blair Sheppard

Publisher
Fast Company Press
Publication
Aug 25, 2026
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Price
$18.95
Dimensions
6 x 9 in
ISBN
9781639081837
ASIN
B0H5NJJPNJ
Pages
232
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Business & EconomicsManagement & LeadershipPublic Policy

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Description

A Fast Company Press Book

The only way to fix our world is to reinvent it.

We stand in the crosshairs of four calamitous trends, each of which has historically led to

tremendous societal disruption and whose combined force now threatens to permanently

alter life as we know it: climate change, demographic shifts, fracturing communities, and technological disruption. The only way that humanity can survive and thrive through this

tidal wave of change is to rethink our fundamental assumptions of how to run the world.

Drawing on decades of experience in academia, global consulting, and leadership, author Blair H. Sheppard presents a practical blueprint for systemic reinvention. This book addresses what we must do, collectively and individually, to foster change that builds the type of world we all want to live in, galvanizing every organization, town, city, country, and person to think differently about preparing for the future. Grounded in real-world examples, personal stories, and a deep understanding of the trends disrupting and reshaping our lives, Reinventing the World provides solutions and offers hope for our collective future.

An urgent call to action for businesses, industries, world leaders, and individuals alike, this book describes the imperative changes we must adopt now if we want to improve our lives and the world we live in for the future.

Awards & Endorsements

Endorsement

From describing the systemic and seismic nature of the megatrends that humanity is grappling with, to highlighting innovative approaches required to sustainably provide the real things that we humans need to survive, to clearly explaining how we must reform government policies, leverage transversal technologies, redeploy finance and reimagine education, to describing how we develop ecosystem strategies that can scale fast, Blair Sheppard provides a clear blueprint to change the world when the world does not want to change. To ignore Blair’s guidance on what is needed to Reinvent the World would be one of the last mistakes humanity makes.

Dr. Tony O’Driscoll, President, Compleximple Inc.


Endorsement
Blair Sheppard has advised leaders in more than 50 countries, founded institutions from scratch, and helped rebuild a community devastated by Hurricane Helene. Reinventing the World is what happens when someone with that range turns seriously to the question of planetary-scale disruption. Four converging megatrends (climate change, demographic shifts, geopolitical fracture, and technological disruption) are dismantling the assumptions on which we built our economies, institutions, and the mental maps we use to make sense of the world. Sheppard's insistence on real things (energy, food, infrastructure, materials) is a necessary corrective to a policy conversation that too often floats above the physical world. Ultimately, reading this book convinced me that technologies as radical as AI or synthetic biology demand institutional reinvention of equal audacity, and that the gap between the two is where the future will be decided.
Julia Pomares (PhD), Regional Lead LATAM, The Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment

Author(s)

Blair Sheppard

Blair Sheppard

Blair H. Sheppard, PhD, is a global strategist, advisor, and Dean Emeritus of Duke University with decades of experience shaping leadership at the intersection of business, government, and society. As Global Leader Emeritus at PwC and founding CEO of Duke Corporate Education, he has guided organizations and policy makers worldwide through complex transformations driven by climate change, technology, and geopolitical shifts.

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