Two chip companies saw the same future coming. One spent twenty years building for it. The other kept optimising the business it already had. Then a third party changed everything.
I like the distinction between prediction and foresight. You don’t have to know exactly what the future will look like to recognise the direction it is taking. The harder part is acting on that insight before everyone else sees it.
This is so good that I've been reading it since last night in my tiny spare times. Im half way through. Its like a treat for my hungry brain. Thanks for sharing!!!
Exactly, foresight is less about predicting the future than committing early to structural shifts, because enduring advantage belongs to leaders who build before the evidence becomes obvious.
I like the distinction between prediction and foresight. You don’t have to know exactly what the future will look like to recognise the direction it is taking. The harder part is acting on that insight before everyone else sees it.
This is so good that I've been reading it since last night in my tiny spare times. Im half way through. Its like a treat for my hungry brain. Thanks for sharing!!!
Exactly, foresight is less about predicting the future than committing early to structural shifts, because enduring advantage belongs to leaders who build before the evidence becomes obvious.
…and this us why we do loops
Exactly! Yet I see almost nobody in business using systems thinking as a tool for this (or anything really)