Introduction

In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.

– Yuval Noah Harari

This book is about dilemmas. Although its title is Disrupting Corporate Culture, on the eve of the Fourth Industrial Revolution culture may not be in any need of disrupting. This is because the world of work and organization as we know it may be gone within 50 years. The convergence of biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics may render the idea of corporate culture a quaint artifact of the late 20th century as workers turn into robots, or become robot-like on account of the “steady stripping of human judgment” from work.1 Corporations as we know them won’t need to exist because robots and brain–machine interfaces will ...

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