---
id: "quote-disrupt-ourselves"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶99 (Daniela Seabrook)"]
tags: ["strategy", "innovation"]
related: ["claim-hr-must-own-ai-strategy", "question-future-state-ai", "entity-daniela-seabrook"]
speaker: "Daniela Seabrook"
speakers: ["Daniela Seabrook"]
quote: "If we continue what we do today without changing and without disrupting ourselves, we will not be there in the future."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-43-leading-human-ai-organization"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/leading-the-human-ai-organization"
sourceTitle: "Leading the Human-AI Organization"
---
# The Necessity of Self-Disruption

> "If we continue what we do today without changing and without disrupting ourselves, we will not be there in the future."
> — [[entity-daniela-seabrook|Daniela Seabrook]]

[[entity-daniela-seabrook|Daniela Seabrook]] shares the **existential framing her executive committee uses** to force continuous innovation and prevent complacency in the face of AI disruption. It is the motivational backbone of [[claim-hr-must-own-ai-strategy]] and lives in productive tension with the honest uncertainty of [[question-future-state-ai]].