Strategy #12 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
In the era of acceleration, one thing is certain : what worked for you in the past likely won’t work for you tomorrow. And all too often, that very thing you do might doom you in the future. That’s because all the assumptions that you might make as to how tomorrow will unfold are based on what you did yesterday - and they are faulty, out of date, and pretty much a path to guaranteed failure. That’s the theme found in today’s key leadership strategy for the era of acceleation: jump forward. The key concept is found in two of the most popular quotes/observations that I run near the end of my keynotes: “Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived using materials not yet invented, with methodologies not yet in existence.” Closely followed by “Change your future, before the future changes you.” That pretty much summarizes your furuter, and to get ahead, you must constantly jump forward. The essence of the situation is found in this video: it’s from the closing…