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CHAPTER 10Looking to the Future

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

—Jane Goodall

Create the future you want to live and work in.

It's an interesting exercise to imagine what our workplaces will look like sometime in the future—a year, a decade, a generation.

I see organizations that have overcome the biases and structural issues that we currently struggle with, that are more equitable and more inclusive than they are today. I mean profoundly more equitable, profoundly more inclusive.

I see organizations that encourage and reward employees for engaging in constructive debate—to fight hard over ideas and not personalities.

I see organizations that are boundary-less—with teams that function just as well with people physically in the office as with people who are distributed and working remotely, anywhere, anytime.

I see organizations that use technology to unleash the creativity, power, and passion within every employee, and that enable us to stay connected to each other in ways that are liberating, not confining.

If there's a time when we need to make sure every employee has a seat at the table, is included in the conversation, and feels a deep sense of belonging to their team and their company, that time is now.

If there's a time when we need to change the way we lead our people and our organizations, that time is now.

In this final chapter, I explore how we can do just that.

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