Organizations need ten to thirty year planning horizons to account for emerging technologies. Corporate retreats should make long-range thinking mandatory, even though executives find distant-future planning painful. This breaks the status quo and enables immediate action.
In fact, the future will include more explorations of hard-to-understand technologies, not less, and designing retreats to emphasize this reality has become mandatory. As such, your company must use long-term horizons of 10 to 30 years to take into account the full effect of new innovations. This requirement frustrates many executives who find it painful to think in such terms. But planning for the distant future is essential in smashing the status quo with immediate actions.
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