MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY

        Make your own history and invent your future, constantly. Apply the basics dynamically. Don’t deny the potential of the force of insight from data analytics, but don’t rely on technology or data scientists to rescue your future.


        From the days of the Silk Road and forever after, in business it is always the age of “uncertainty” and the age of “flux and agility.” Remember, the choice to shape your own tomorrow is yours—and it has always been that way.


“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

—Alan Kay, Computer Scientist


        The future belongs to leaders who have the will and the foresight to allow themselves and their organizations to use the force of data analytics as the wind in the sails of their imagination and innovation. The best tennis players understand that a good tennis racket may help improve their game, but will not make them a champion. The winners are those who acknowledge that knowing their own stats and those of their opponent in a baseball game or a presidential race can only help them strategize better. It is the strategies and desire to win that makes you a winner, not the technology that accurately tabulates the stats.

Chapter 3 – The Caterpillar’s Edge

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