Strategy #19 in Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration.
The future is being invented all around you - and sometimes you don’t know where to look! That’s why you need to ‘study the edges’ - as a leader, you need to learn to look all around you, in unique locations, for the trends and innovations that will redefine and disrupt your future. Here’s the key - those very same trends can be turned into an opportunity once you spot them. Where do you start? Everywhere! The future today is being invented by a geek in a garage who has some unique insight into what comes next; by small startup organizations who can move faster than traditional large, legacy companies; through crowdfunding initiatives and new forms of global collaborative R&D; through the tinkering and hobby economy; by those who see a different future than the one you see. This is a massive leadership trend to explore, and I barely know where to start in covering all the issues that spring from it. So let’s start here, with a short clip from my video on “The Seeds of Innovation.”…