JUNE- 2020AEROSPACEDEFENSEREVIEW.COM8In My OpinionLEADING IN A WORLD THAT JUST CHANGEDBy Kurtis Jetsel, Director, Lockheed MartinTechnology disrupts; it always has and always will. Tell me something I don't know, you say. Stay with me for the next few minutes as we discuss how the inability of leaders to adapt to that disruption is costing our companies millions of dollars in lost revenue.You know where you personally reside in the `technology adoption life cycle.' Perhaps you are an `innovator' on most things and if you are a leader, I'm willing to risk a guess that you are a `laggard.' Not me, you respond. "I personally have the latest technology and I ensure my company is equipped with the best technology money can buy." I have no doubt that is the case; where I want to challenge your thinking however, in the area leadership.I want to suggest that as leaders, we are `laggards' when it comes to adapting a new paradigm required for leading in a world that just changed, a world where the rate of change is nearing exponential proportions. Buckminster Fuller postulated that up until the early 1900's the collective world's knowledge doubled about every 100 years. By the end of WWII,
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