By Richard Martin
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- Are you preparing to fight the last war, or are you learning by assessing and adapting to current and future realities?
- Are you set in your ways, or ready to consider alternatives?
- Do you look for ready-made solutions to your challenges and problems, or do you think things through for yourself?
- Do you have a specific process for analyzing trends, risks, threats, and opportunities, or do you just wing it and go with the flow?
- How confident are you in your data, explanations, and knowledge? Could you increase your confidence in these?
- Do you often claim you’re the victim of bad luck or the beneficiary of good luck, or do you look for explanations and causes that can be traced back to your skills, processes, systems, and inputs?
- Do you stay as vigilant and aware as possible? Do you know what this means in terms of trends, opportunities, threats, and risks?
- What are your forecasts and predictions based on? Validated information and causal explanations, or simply assumptions and hopeful wishes about the present and the future?
- Are you prepared for risks, obstacles, threats, and opportunities? Do you assume your competitors are as smart as you?
- How robust and resilient are you and your organization? Are your plans flexible and adaptable under changing circumstances?
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