How to Bring More Rigor to Your Long-Term Thinking
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Turn breakthrough ideas into real results at the virtual HBR Innovation Summit on November 12th with top CEOs and master classes on AI and growth. HBR executive subscribers attend free, with exclusive programming November 13th. Learn more at hbr.org slash innovation summit. I'm Alison Beard. And I'm Adi Ignatius, and this is the HPR Idea Cast.
Adi, how good are you at predicting the future? I am very bad at predicting the future. In fact, you could use my predictions as a counterindicator of what actually is going to happen. But why are you asking?
Well, predicting the future is something that every business leader tries to do as they're planning their long-term strategy, but it's obviously extremely difficult, particularly in the current world, it seems like no matter how much data you gather or logical projections you make, you really don't know what's next or what's going to happen. But our guest today has a framework for helping us do a better job. Yeah, that sounds really valuable. I mean, we are living in a period of hyper uncertainty. That's absolutely true.
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