For the past thirty years I've heard business leaders make impassioned speeches about living and working in times of accelerating change. Ironically, talk of relentless change in management circles has been one of the most enduring constants throughout my career. But the types of change to which those leaders referred were generally linear and incremental: more supply chains were moving to areas of less-expensive labor, consumer habits were evolving, imports were challenging the market-share of local incumbents, technology was altering the way we work, more business was being done online or remotely...just to cite a few examples.