"You need to act in the moment you have!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
One of my main messages yesterday during my keynote was that you need to make the most of the moment if you have one. If a wide variety of trends are suddenly coming together - which they are for medical device technology as they are for many other industries - then you have to move at the speed of the trends. This is a message I often share while on stage.
In that context, I've also been doing a final proofread of Dancing in the Rain - I suspect we are days away from release. And in one of the chapters, I saw one of the phrases I wrote - "You need to act in the moment you have." When you write tens of thousands of words, you sometimes forget the wisdom you wove into just a few of those words.
With that in mind, here's what you need to think about.
You need to commit.
You need to have a compelling sense of urgency.
You have to decide to move forward, not back.
You should have a sense that RIGHT NOW is the right time.
You must be ready to act decisively.
You need to make decisions.
You need to move with the trends as they mature, not as they fade.
Do things. Now.
Get it done - because why should you wait?
Kill indecision - otherwise, it will kill you.
Start doing. Action is better than stasis.
Act faster - because your world is.
Volatility is normal - learn from it.
Think faster. Don't wait for perfect information.
Act more. Momentum is valuable.
Change is inevitable - Indecisiveness isn't.
Because waiting is fatal.
Agility, innovation, and execution are key.
Futurist Jim Carroll admits to having never understood indecision.