{"id":777,"date":"2007-06-11T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_future_stat\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T10:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:59:49","slug":"the_future_stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the_future_stat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/press\/article\/07109?pg=0\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aheadofthecurve-thebook.com\/\">Joseph Ellis<\/a> courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidework.net\/web\/index.html\">InsideWork<\/a>.&nbsp; Mr. Ellis is a master of strategic thinking and vision.&nbsp; He was formally with Goldman Sachs and is a well noted author.<\/p>\n<p>How do you approach your strategic thinking?&nbsp; When you consider the future do you see anything?&nbsp; By the way, strategic thinking is not a meeting at an off-site with your boss.&nbsp; It can happen there, but it starts with you and the years of practice (strategic thinking and visioning).<\/p>\n<p>Keep in-mind that what you see may not always be the yellow brick road.&nbsp; Maybe you&#8217;ll see that what your doing today is destined to become extinct.&nbsp; Some organizations and people should have exited their markets years ago (see the music business).&nbsp; There are other dreams to dream, other businesses to be involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are notorious for self-delusion.&nbsp; Our retirement, out second home on the coast or the new Lexus keep us hostage to a present reality that only we see.&nbsp; No wonder innovation and change are so often dreaded in corporate America.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re truly a visionary and a strategic thinker, then you&#8217;ll realize that there is an ebb and flow to all things.&nbsp; Timing is everything here.<\/p>\n<p>Take a deep breathe and See.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this interview with Joseph Ellis courtesy of InsideWork.&nbsp; Mr. Ellis is a master of strategic thinking and vision.&nbsp; He was formally with Goldman Sachs and is a well noted author. How do you approach your strategic thinking?&nbsp; When you consider the future do you see anything?&nbsp; By the way, strategic thinking is not a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}