Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset

PREFACE

The future is important and can’t be taken for granted. So why don’t we approach it more systematically, inside and outside the workplace? It often seems amorphous and hazy, which means we don’t treat it as seriously as we should, even if we sometimes think that we do. During the past five years, we have received a harsh, ongoing lesson on just how different the future can turn out from expectations. New college graduates unable to find jobs are taking up residence on their parents’ couches. Retirees are struggling with significantly less income than they anticipated, due to unprecedented low interest rates and a sharp drop in real estate values. Once-mighty companies are shrinking or going out of business, contributing to a stubbornly ...