The unprecedented pace of change is mandating that no responsible leader or manager is exempt from the role of futurist. Making sure that strategies are connected more to what's coming than to what's been is essential to avoid obsolescence. Yet most of us have very little, if any, preparation for this 180° shift.

1. Don't fall in love with your first solution -- it will probably block you from finding a better one.
2. To be productive in today's turbulent marketplace, you must unlearn traditional time management and expand it into a more flexible, whole-brain style.
3. Make speed a competitive advantage while learning to identify and avoid Hurry Sickness.
4. Balance attention to speed with Quality of Life
5. Find ways to become connected -- products, people, countries -- everything!
6. Identify the significant INTANGIBLES for each of your customer groups and make sure you improve them.
7. Learn to apply the genius of AND to difficult trade-offs.
8. Use positive humor and metaphors to generate passion for change.

"Nothing much happens without a dream. For something great to happen, it takes a great dream."
--Robert K. Greenleaf

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