Leadership

"Slow innovation, timid ideas, process over imagination, small-minded thinking, diminished ambition: these are the signs of an abandoned future."- Futurist Jim Carroll So Apple had their big developer conference the other day. This is the event where they lay out their plans for the coming year and

Discussions I have with people, show all the other warning signs - projects being postponed, capital budgets being curtailed, strategic planning sessions being canceled.

There is a trap in this thinking: the new normal won't be the same as the old normal. While you are busy waiting to get back to it, 'it' will have changed.

Chaos reveals opportunities that rigid thinking can't see.

"There is no shortage of big opportunities.. There is a shortage of bold leadership!" = Futurist Jim Carroll One of my fellow futurists recently included this line in a post I read - "We should be pulling more photons from the sun." He wrote it as an

How do you eradicate mediocrity? I came to realize that it involves coming to accept some ground truths about your situation and your reality