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Amie Devero clip for the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2024

Name: Amie Devero clip for the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2024
Uploaded: 2024-06-17T03:19:52+00:00
Duration: 19 s
Channel: Francis Wade
Description: In this excerpt from the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2024, the speaker emphasizes that a compelling future vision must feel plausible to the audience…

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In this excerpt from the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2024, the speaker emphasizes that a compelling future vision must feel plausible to the audience. Even if participants have diverse ideas about the path forward, they need to see concrete intermediate steps—such as mergers, buyouts, new or applied technologies, or scientific discoveries—that link today’s reality to the envisioned future. Without visible “nodes” bridging the present and the future, the vision lacks credibility and will fade once the meeting ends.

And then, the second thing is that you have— that vision does have to feel plausible. They have to be able, even if each person in the room at this point in the retreat has a different idea of how you're going to get there, and they all will, they have to have an idea in their mind of how they're going to get
there.
It may require something unprecedented. It may require people being bought out or having a merger or inventing something they don't yet have or creating some new technology or applying a technology that will get invented or discovering something in a laboratory that they haven't discovered yet. But they can see the kind of— they can see the nodes along the way between today and that future. So if they can't see anything connecting the future to the present, There is no plausibility, and it will disappear as soon as you leave the room.