Daily Inspiration: Leadership – “Your biggest mistake is believing that you don’t need to do it right now”

“Your biggest mistake is believing that you don’t need to do it right now” – Futurist Jim Carroll

What does it mean if you have a great idea, and your superior blows it off by saying “we don’t need to do that right now.”

It means you are in pretty big trouble.

Why does this happen? Straight to the point – it’s because of these failures in leadership:

• they don’t know what’s next
• they don’t want to know what’s next
• they refuse to accept what’s next
• they don’t believe the imminence of what’s next
• they don’t think there is any hurry to deal with what’s next
• their arrogance blinds them as to what’s next
• they are in a state of denial as to the scope of what’s next
• they are wrong about the speed of disruptive change with what’s next
• their age gives them a poor filter to understand what’s next.
• they underestimate the impact of emerging technologies with what comes next
• they fail to invest in innovation and research and never get ready for what’s next
• they rely too heavily on outdated business models, not accepting that entirely new ones come next
• they don’t engage in strategic foresight or scenario planning and never understand what comes next

All of this means that they – and you – fail.

Tell me if you disagree.

You can’t!

With this type of mindset, many organizations have failure ingrained at the top!