About This Book
Put foresight at the core of your strategies and operations. The how is what makes this book different. Future-Focused Leadership helps leaders understand the benefit of putting foresight at the core of their strategic decision-making. We accompany the what of future-focused leadership with the how by offering practical exercises, tools, and experiments in both thinking and action to help compound the return on time spent. By offering you the how that is so often overlooked in other books and theories, we hope to have a massive impact on your goals.
It is our sincere desire that the implementation of this process provides the insight and foresight necessary to lead your organization to its best future. Although the concepts and activities are based on theory and practices developed by successful strategic-thinking practitioners, this book is not theoretical. It is a field manual of practical steps and exercises that will help you develop a clear understanding of your organization’s future and provide the foundation for long-term success.
As you work through this book, you will develop a different way of thinking, moving from a present- to a future-focused mindset and from a present-focused management to future-focused leadership. The ultimate deliverable will be an evergreen, comprehensive yet repeatable, future-focused process for leading your organization into an unknown and ever-changing future.
