The future is blink

 The future is blink

Photo by Manoj Bisht

It's never too late to plan for our future – all we need is a blank sheet of paper. 

'We are walking backward into the future with our eyes firmly fixed on our past achievement' 

Charles Handy

To be able to understand the future more broadly we first need to understand the future better than the past. 

As leaders, we should be focusing more than half of our time, energy, and wisdom on creating the future for our company, when it comes to the future, never confuse activity with progress. 

We have to balance where we are now with where we want to be in the future, because comparison is the primary sin of modern life, it traps us in an unwinnable game of defining ourselves in terms of others, depriving us of the freedom to follow our self-directed path and to shape our own lives into a unique work of art. 

This is not the end. 

• Be a clock builder [an architect – not a time teller]
• Embrace the 'Genius of the AND'
• Preserve the core/stimulate progress. 
• Seek consistent alignment. 

'The future is not something to be predicted, its something to be achieved'   Linus 

Before Copernicus and Kepler, it was thought that the sun revolved around the earth, and it is so in business. We are satisfied that success and survival revolve around 'Profit' maybe our profit-cantered world is as skewed and counterproductive as the concept of an earth centre universe. 

Any business muddled enough to believe that its real purpose is producing profit is probably not long for this world. One of the reasons so many businesses fail is that all their analysis and learning revolves around profit, so they become aware of problems only when their profit begins to decline. 

'Business must be run at a profit, else it will die but when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit then also the business must die for it no longer has a reason for existence'

Henry Ford

A 'Profit Pool' is different from a market (A market is the mix and volume of product sold, not the business economics of the product)

It's more important than ever to define ourselves in terms of what we stand for rather than what we make because what we make will eventually become outmoded faster than it has at any time in the past. 

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