Author Q&A: Disruption! McKinsey & Company's Richard Dobbs Discussing His Latest Book

McKinsey's Richard Dobbs says changes are coming—some positive and some negative—and the people who can adapt best will be the winners.

In No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends, the directors of the McKinsey Global In- stitute (MGI), the flagship think tank of McKinsey & Com- pany, interpret masses of data from MGI's 25 years of research to guide readers through the next two decades of a dramatically different future. For instance, in just ten years, some 140 million knowledge workers' jobs could be replaced by computers and 75 million jobs by robots. The authors go behind the current headlines to analyze emerging trends caused by four disruptive forces trans- forming the global economy. They are: Emerging markets and cities; the pace of technology breakthroughs and adoption; aging demographics, and, the global trading system. To shed light on these forces, along with other disruptions, McKinsey's Richard Dobbs, one of the authors of the book, the director of MGI and a Senior Partner based in London, sat down with Consulting to discuss No Ordinary Disruption and its implications for the future.