DEVELOPING ANTICIPATORY PROWESS

"... Like just about every other leadership capability, anticipatory prowess is a skill that can be developed and strengthened. You do it by:

~ listening to the mavericks and the complainers (without unnecessarily energizing them);

~ being insatiably curious and asking "horizon" questions;

~ harvesting the knowledge of departing intellectual capital;

~ probing the minds of key users and influencers;

~ always testing, challenging and experimenting with your "antennae" raised."

~ Jim Murray, CEO of Optimal Solutions International, a company that specializes in helping organizations reach their full potential;

[Here's the link to the original article, 'Understanding Risk: A Core Competency of Leaders', by Jim Murray, from which the above statement has been extracted by me.]

What Jim talks about resonates very well with what innovation strategist Wayne Burkan has advocated in the latter's book, 'Wide Angle Vision: Beat Your Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees', during the mid-nineties.