World After Midnight
What is the World After Midnight?
Eddie Obeng says, “Most of us spend our lives acting rationally in response to a world we recognise and understand but which no longer exists.”
Today, the pace, scale and interconnectedness of change exceed our ability to learn
Today, what happened yesterday no longer predicts tomorrow.
Today what worked yesterday won't work tomorrow.

This is a universal challenge affecting the entire the man-made and business environment. Our systems, enterprises, education, organisations and institutions were designed yesterday and don't fit today. To find out what do differently today, watch the video.
Learning Without Boundaries
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Pentacle focuses on ensuring that the world’s business and enterprise leaders can ’evolve’ their thinking and the cultures of their organisations for this New World. It’s not just about adding the latest fad or trend to your but instead about unlearning as well as transformation of how you think, how you work and who you connect with. This is a really difficult challenge for many organisations and Pentacle is really pleased to have been effective in:
PROVOKING you to look at the world differently and recognise you need to change in order to make life better
INSPIRING you to have the courage and energy to change
EDUCATING Rememebr, “a problem can’t be solved by the consciousness that created it.” Eddie Obeng at Pentacle has created a novel research method and used it quickly to create literally hundreds of ways of coping with our World After Midnight
ENABLING learning without boundaries using QUBE Basically QUBE is skype, webex, secondlife, adobeconnect, dropbox, glance and facebook rolled into one. It is intuitive and easy to use and comes with a helpful human guide. Where-ever you and and your collaborators are in the world your expert guide provides powerful tools and techniques developed by Eddie Obeng which you use to discover and deliver better and different ways to reach your objectives and dreams.
FACILITATING you as you take your first new steps, Helping you navigate and avoid ‘Dumb failure’
More on the World After Midnight
Do you want to meet interesting and challenging people from around different organisations and every country in the world to discuss what the World After Midnight means to them and to learn what they are doing about it?
Join EDDIE OBENG on for an “Open Day” on the Third Thursday of the month on QUBE (Pentacle’s ‘virt-real’ campus) for a qubinar (participative and fully interactive workshop on QUBE).
Basically QUBE is a conference call, webex, google hangout, secondlife, skype, adobeconnect, dropbox, glance, video conference, all rolled into one but really intuitive and easy to use.
Start time: UK 17:45 End time UK 19:00 Check your local time here
Atleast 48 hours BEFORE: Click HERE for an Entry-Pass then DOWNLOAD the Three Dimensional browser app complete the short orientation (or read the Cheat-sheet) so that you don’t hold the other participants up.
In our “World After Midnight” we’re on a mission to get the world to see reality and to teach the business world to adapt to it. We do this by removing the boundaries to new ideas, taking away the boundaries between locations, making learning and application seamless, blending the classroom and workplace, connecting you to others who wish to learn what you do or can teach you what you most need to learn.
We’ve created a page just for you. You can get there by clicking here or selecting the tab at the top of the page. If you have any other or specific questions or needs please let us know thorugh the comments section at the bottom of this page.
Watch Eddie Obeng’s TED Global Talk:
What’s New?
Eddie Obeng is serialising his new book on innovation – “Who Killed the Sparq?”. Please read it and leave us your thoughts and comments. There is also an active discussion about the book in the Pentacle LinkedIn Group
Find out what’s new in the New World Times.
- Eddie Obeng as a qubot seated at table
About fifteen years ago …
- Eddie Obeng as a qubot seated at table
… all the ‘Rules’ about how to run a business, organisation or government successfully, were changed or deleted and a completely new set of ‘Rules’ has been in operation ever since which means that we keep acting rationally in response to a world we recognise and understand but which no longer exists
We’re on a mission to get the world to see reality and to teach the business world to adapt to it.
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Heard your Ted talk today…. Super Awesome!!!
Hi guys,
I wanted to thank you for keeping an open-door to the monthly virtual business school. I was about to say “I can’t tell you how often I use the things I learn in your class” but, that’s a lie. The truth is I use the things I’ve learnt every single day.
I’ve begun using the hopes & fears idea for every class I teach at my local university. I use the idea of project chunking to relieve customer fears and mitigate high risk associated with S-curves. I use the WAM story everyday to illuminate the need for adaptation. I’ve even changed how and what I’m learning about because of these sessions.
I can’t wait for the next class:)
Thanks for inspiring,
Marc
world after midnight has been an eye opener. I’m glad to have the opportunity for having access to this and sharing in thoughts.
thank you.
ivan
I attended January’s Qubinar and it left me wishing that I had a access to a white board with sticky notes. What a brilliant tool!
The concepts presented remind of the work done by Neuhauser, Bender & Stromberg who presented the concept of Corporate Intelligence Quotient in their 1999 blockbuster “CULTURE.COM: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace”.
In summary, agility in adapting to what is coming (not what’s here) and having the supporting ability to learn are critical success factors for survival. There is no place for lazy thinking or thinking that you know everything.
This excellent article, “WorldAfterMidnight” demonstrates that u truly fully understand just
what exactly u are communicating about! I completely agree with your blog.
Thank you ,Kindra
“WorldAfterMidnight” genuinely causes me personally think a small amount extra.
I really adored every single section of it. Thanks
-Chester
Hi there, just saw your video on TED. I loved it! Thanks