Strategy #9 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
Here’s a big issue to wrap your head around – increasingly, your opportunity for future success will come from your ability to get the timing right! As they say, timing is everything, particularly when it comes to the issue of getting involved in any particular trend. In the era of acceleration, it becomes even more critical. You’d better make sure you are ready with any trend of importance and relevance because the future might happen before you know it. How do you do this? That’s the focus of leadership trait #9 in the era of acceleration: Keep your powder dry! The issue of timing really became a focus of many of my keynotes over the last while - here’s a clip from my keynote in Morocco for the International Finance Corporation / World Bank just a few months ago at a major global manufacturing conference. In my series last year, 19 Trends for 2019, I identified timing as one of the biggest trends issues going forward. Getting any trend right will really determine your potential…