James M. Manyika is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm, and one of its three global co-leaders. James is also a director (senior partner) at McKinsey, where he is one of the leaders of McKinsey’s Global High Tech, Media and Telecom Practice. He has led research on business strategy issues and on global economic trends, including technology and its impact on business and the economy, growth and productivity, globalization, innovation, competitiveness, and labor markets. He has published a book on distributed networks and decision theory and is a co-author of a book, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends. ^[1]