The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough � you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
One way ofbuilding private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't...if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, 'What did people never talk about?' That's where you're going to find opportunity.
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Although strategic planning is billed as a way of becoming more future oriented, most managers... will admit that their strategic plans reveal more about today's problems than tomorrow's opportunities.
My argument is that companies are often blind, and that it is a genetic problem, making blinders a bigger challenge than mere inefficiency. Blindness can even affect an entire industry because most companies in an industry are blind in the same way.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human