Fast Change Happens Slowly
The year 2020. For many years it was the date used to describe the future. A time when we’d be travelling to the beach in our flying cars as the robots did all the work.
While that particular vision of the future hasn’t arrived yet, the world today is vastly different to times past requiring new strategies for organisational success.
As a Futurist I’m often asked to disrupt the thinking of Executives and Boards while facilitating their strategic planning process.
However progress doesn’t require disrupting your thinking.
Instead focus on lifting it.
If you think about how disruption works, it’s not actually about disruption. In business disruption doesn’t occur quickly resulting in chaos, which is what the term implies.
Instead it’s about a slow-moving change – typically over a decade or more as technology matures and the impact of the next generation increases. Which doesn’t result in disruption but instead a gradual shift in the system of an industry from one pattern to another.
In other words, fast change happens slowly.
The objective with your strategic visioning and planning shouldn’t be to disrupt your team’s thinking – as no-one really likes to be disrupted, even though they might be willing to disrupt others. Instead inspire and lift your team’s thinking above their current patterns of beliefs and behaviour to be able to see the changes ahead…
How? Shorter than a book but longer than a tweet – see into the future year ahead with our Strategic Planning in 2020 whitepaper.
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