CHAPTER 1CREATE A FUTURE-FOCUSED MINDSET
People must take as much control of their own future as possible. Increasingly even long-lived institutions have become unstable, and many companies can’t or won’t provide the security that earlier generations of workers could count on. Gone are the days when you could take for granted corporate or even government benefits.
In their 2010 book The Truth about Leadership, top leadership authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner write, “The capacity to imagine and articulate exciting future possibilities is the defining competence of leaders. Leaders are custodians of the future. They are concerned about tomorrow’s world and those who will inherit it.”
Peter Drucker’s writing on the future was sharp and perceptive. ...
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