Leaders Make the Future, 2nd Edition

Foreword to the Second Edition

My office at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is overflowing with books. Volumes on strategy, history, science, talent, and numerous other topics crowd the shelves and pile up on tables. Colleagues are always free to borrow whatever they wish. There is one book, however, that is off limits: my first edition of Leaders Make the Future. Dog-eared and heavily underlined, crammed with notes in the margins, it has rarely been far from my thoughts since first reading it three years ago. In that book, Bob Johansen and the Institute for the Future perform an extraordinary service. They render the amorphous, unknowable future—that stormy VUCA horizon of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity—a little less ...