5 Develop Active Foresight
Radically adaptable teams are capable of planning for the future, even when the future is unknowable. And they do this by developing a foresight muscle that proactively detects early signals of change and responds swiftly to them.
Starting in December 2019, Rick Ambrose was getting signals that the Covid-19 outbreak in China might pose a greater threat of spreading to North America than government officials were letting on. As the head of Denver-based Lockheed Martin Space, Rick felt he couldn’t risk leaving the future to fate. With twenty-two thousand employees in his care, not to mention the company’s essential role in national security and space exploration, there was simply too much at stake. His team builds ...
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