Polyintelligence: A New Operating System for Leadership

We are living through the early stages of what might be called the Sixth Great Transition following:

1. Hunter to farmer
2. Farmer to the axial consciousness
3. Axial to Renaissance/Scientific Revolution
4. Renaissance to Industrialization/Capitalism
5. Industrialization to Digital/Global

This is a moment in history marked by the convergence of machine intelligence, global crises, exponential technologies, ecological boundaries, and social upheaval. It’s not merely a time of change; it’s a time of entanglement, where systems collide, timelines compress, and traditional models of leadership are stretched to the breaking point.

In this age, polyintelligence emerges as an essential framework for leadership—not as a single skill or solution, but as a dynamic, systemic way of navigating complexity, velocity, and uncertainty.

From Collision to Convergence

Today’s leaders don’t just face individual challenges—they face a collision of contradictions: rapid innovation and deep inequality, environmental collapse and ...