Strategy #5 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
“Complacency in a time of rapid, disruptive change can be a death sentence – not only for organizations, but for the careers and skills of those who work there! It’s time to abandon the thinking that has had you anchored firmly to the past – … it is time to move beyond the thinking that has led us to a world of MBA’s – Masters of Business Administration – and focus upon the critical skill that will take you into tomorrow. The world doesn’t need more administrators. It needs more MBI’s – Masters of Business Imagination!” That’s the opening line in my Masters in Business Imagination Manifesto which I wrote in 2003, and it’s the featured item in today’s post on key leadership strategies to align to the era of acceleration. If you need to do anything to do anything to align to our faster future, you need to “imaginate” more - because you really don’t know what might come next! Creativity should be a key cornerstone skill and leadership trait. Imaginate? Is it a word? If not, it…