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Daily Inspiration: "Be prepared to launch" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Too many great ideas fail to launch. There are lots of bold new initiatives that are never implemented. Many organizations identify wonderful new strategic opportunities but never pursue them. People develop fascinating new skills and capabilities but never get to the step of actually using them. There are many leadership commitments to a new future that fail to go forward. Concepts that fail to gain traction, and initiatives that fail to initiate.

Our world is one of failed initiatives.

If you do anything in 2024, try to avoid letting that happen to you - make sure that any idea is followed up with actual initiative and action. That's strategy #13 in my 24 Strategies for 2024 series. Innovation!

One of the slides that worked its way into the closing moments of my talk this year suggested that organizations should 'Build an innovation runway.'

It carried the subtitle 'Don't let old people kill new opportunities.'

Sad, but true - and t it's based on a recent real story I witness all too often.

Read on!

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/12/daily-inspiration-24-strategies-for-2024-13-be-prepared-to-launch/