8.12. Can You Recognize What's Coming Next?
One of the most critical tasks of a trusted advisor, as I have said, is to help leaders figure out what to do next. Understanding the power of patterns can help you do that, because you can often use patterns to forecast what is going to happen next. We all tend to think we are unique, our situation special, our challenges exceptional.
My career confirms the fallacy of this kind of thinking, every day. In fact, having been an advisor through all these years and having gone through so many different —mostly adverse—scenarios with organizations and leadership, my take away is that thorough study of past scenarios may prevent some aspect of similar future mishaps, but the main benefit is a better, more ...
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