I am headed to Lake Powell for the rest of the week. Thanksgiving dinner on a house boat in southern Utah will be different.
This also means I won’t be blogging for a few days.
With that said, I will leave you with some thoughts from a great book I have been reading. The book is “The Visionary’s Handbook: Nine Paradoxes that Will Shape the Future of Your Business.” I strongly recommend it for companies trying to deal with the current state of things. Here is an exceprt:
- The closer a vision gets to a provable “truth,” the more it is simply simply describing the present in the future tense.
- The more successful you are at predicting the future, the more you destabilize your present, in every way.
- The more accurate a vision is and the it destabilizes the present, the less liekly it is to come true.
- The more we are certain of the details of the future, the more we are likely to be wrong.
- Whatever we expect to be in the future, we must anticipate we won’t be.
- The more we come to understand our future, the more we alienate ourselves from the present and those who live in it.
I know, deep stuff. You have to read it carefully. I recommend it, it fits right in with one of the core tenants of the Internet Services Model. The Infrastructure Paradox:
“Success in the software infrastructure business requires the balance between two extremes. The extreme of generating shareholder value while fostering global ubiquity.”