Balancing the needs of the future with the demands of today - Future on the Agenda

18 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this opening segment of the "Put the Future on the Agenda" webinar, the presenter frames the central dilemma faced by many organizational leaders: how to juggle immediate, day‑to‑day operational pressures while also dedicating time and resources to strategic, future‑focused thinking. She illustrates the scenario of a typical Monday morning—team meetings, heavy workloads, and competing demands from other parts of the organization urging strategic foresight and disruption preparedness. The speaker emphasizes that failing to balance these priorities can lead to highly efficient work that ultimately becomes irrelevant or redundant, a risk that can affect both individuals and teams. The tone is conversational yet urgent, aiming to resonate with professionals who feel the tension between current responsibilities and future planning.

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Welcome to this webinar, Put the Future on the Agenda. I really enjoyed putting this presentation together because it answers so many questions that so many of my clients have been wrestling with. So I'm hoping that we can answer some questions for you as well. And this all starts on a Monday morning when you come into the office and you know that you've got a team meeting at 11 AM and there is so much on your plate already and your team has got so much to deal with, but at the same time you've got people in other parts of the organization, really asking you to think strategically about the future and to prepare for things that are coming and to look at disruptions. And now you have to try and balance those 2 things, and that can be quite challenging. So what we're doing is balancing the needs of today, what's on your desk at the moment, with the needs for the future. And if we don't get that right, then we run the risk of working very efficiently, doing really good work that increasingly becomes irrelevant and redundant. And that word redundant is really terrible because it may apply to you and your team as well if we don't manage to get that right.