Get There Early

Get There Early includes a map to the decade of dilemmas that we can already taste in today's current events, drawing from the latest Ten-Year Forecast by Institute for the Future-which has a thirty-eight year track record and is one of the very few futures think tanks ever to outlive its own forecasts. The forecast map unpacks a future that requires new forms of leadership beyond the run-and-gun problem- solver style so common among today's leaders, many of whom love to solve quick problems but hate to deal with ongoing dilemmas. Leaders must develop the same kinds of complex emergent qualities as the challenges they are facing in the "VUCA World" of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, qualities like Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility.

Bob Johansen was president and CEO of the Institute for the Future from 1996 to 2004 and is now the IFTF Distinguished Fellow.