CHAPTER 5
Anticipatory Leadership: Preparing
Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.
—C. S. Lewis | “Learning in War Time,” in The Weight of Glory
The matter of innovation is inherently future-oriented as it directs itself to the “new” and “different,” regardless of whether that means new materials, products, or services in whole, part, or use. Often, the latter—that of use—is overlooked, but it bears an increasingly important ...
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