Strategic Foresight – The Skill that Every Leader Needs to Learn
Premise: For most of the 20th century, leadership has been about managing the known about optimizing for efficiency and reducing variance in every sphere of work. But today, we live in a world where variance is the norm. The pace and scale of change around us mean that optimizing for efficiencies is a lost cause, maybe even a doomed cause and a recipe for disaster. Leaders who succeed in the future will be those who make the shift from extrapolating the past to preparing for the future. One can’t really predict the future; one can only prepare for it. And […]
