You cannot predict the future. So what can you do?
Yesterday evening I watched the Champions League quarter-final between Paris Saint-Germain and Atalanta on the sidewalk in front of a cafe here in Paris. One year ago, anyone looking at the TV screen might have thought the two teams were scrimmaging at best. After all there were no fans, no live crowd noise, just 22 guys running back and forth, green grass, empty seats. No one could have have foreseen a setting like this for such an important match.
Wanda Wallace and I have written a short article in Strategy+Business about what to do when you cannot predict the future. A colleague of ours, a well-known CEO, once said that his only regret was not taking more time to think about the future. What we are saying is, yes, think about it, prepare for it as best as you can, but you simply cannot predict it.
We have some ideas about what that preparation looks like in today's world.
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Thinking-productively-about-the-future?gko=72162
Enjoy the article and let us know what you think.
CEO of OncoZenge AB
4 年Well put Stephen Newman. One of the key questions I am curious (and concerned) about currently is; How do we preserve our company culture during this time of all-remote-work-from-home? Our office gatherings, that one on one session, after work meetups, parties, lunch, sports and social clubs and more, have been key parts to our "glue", our community, learning, team and trust building.. a fabric of who we are beyond what we do in our day to day jobs and projects.. Zoom can't replace that.