45. The Law of Foresight
Leaders have the ability to predict and anticipate the future.
You should give a lot of thought to the future because that is where you are going to be spending the rest of your life. Your ability to accurately anticipate the future largely determines the success or failure of yourself and your organization.
Foresight is the ability to analyze the current situation and to accurately predict what is likely to happen as a result. The best leaders are those who continually look down the road and prepare carefully for possible reversals well in advance of them taking place.
Leaders know that potential successes have often been turned into disasters because of the failure of the leader to anticipate a setback in some area. ...
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