In the age of the Internet, everyone knows what’s new, but only the best leaders have the foresight to sense what’s important and get there ahead of the rush. In order to get there early, leaders need to tune their foresight abilities—to sense the future, to make sense out of threats and opportunities, and to decide when to decide. The Foresight to Insight to Action Cycle, described in detail in the book, helps leaders make strategic sense out of mounting dilemmas. Get There Early includes a map to the decade of dilemmas that we can already taste in today’s current events, drawing from the latest Ten-Year Forecast by Institute for the Future—which has a thirty-eight year track record and is one of the very few futures think tanks ever to outlive its own forecasts.The forecast map unpacks a future that requires new forms of leadership beyond the run-and-gun problem-solver style so common among today’s leaders, many of whom love to solve quick problems but hate to deal with ongoing dilemmas. Leaders must develop the same kinds of complex emergent qualities as the challenges they are facing in the “VUCA World” of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, qualities like Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility. If you hold or aspire to a leadership position in business, government, or a nonprofit agency, this book will help you succeed even when you can’t solve. Johansen and his colleagues use foresight to tap into the wisdom of uncertainty, to help leaders resolve the constant tension—a dilemma in itself—between judging too soon and deciding too late.
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Table of ContentsForward by W. Stanton Smith,Introduction: Foresight to Insight to ActionPart OneFORESIGHT: Sensing Provocative FuturesChapter 1: Thinking Ten Years Ahead to Benefit TodayChapter 2: Institute for the Future’s Ten-Year ForecastChapter 3: The VUCA World: Both Danger & OpportunityChapter 4: What’s Different About ProblemsPart TwoINSIGHT: Sense Making, to Inspire StrategyChapter 5: It Takes a Story to Understand a DilemmaChapter 6: Immersion: The Best Way to Learn in the VUCA WorldChapter 7: Sensing and Sense AbilityChapter 8: How Foresight Can Inspire StrategyPart ThreeACTION: To Get There EarlyChapter 9: Insight from ActionChapter 10: Flex and Flex AbilityChapter 11: Being Flexibly FirmConclusion: Making Your Peace with the VUCA World
