The Hawking Challenge

Professor Stephen Hawking predicted that humanity has 100 years in which to leave Earth and colonise another planet in our galaxy. Otherwise, we will join so many other species of life and become extinct. He made this prediction just before he died on 14 March 2017 reducing by 90% his previous prediction of 1,000 more years of human existence on Earth.

Whether we choose to believe Hawking or not, his predication poses a great question: what is our time to extinction? Is it the 4 generations of This Century? Or, the 40 generations of This Millennium?

Will time prove Professor Hawking right? Or, will humanity change to prove Professor Hawking wrong?

These questions trouble me and many others. With deference to the scientific approach, we must seek to disprove his hypothesis. Not prove it.

Is your organisation or business waiting for the future or controlling its own destiny?

When #innovation and #governance collide on the management agenda, the leadership question falls to what boundaries need to be set and how to design a system of controls to drive the business. This week’s Business Leaders Forum considered these questions with these three takeaways.

#innovation and #governance for #longterm #value, better #outcomes and #results

Are you agile? Or do you do agile?

Are you agile? Or do you do agile? The first goes to a competency for human interaction and the latter to a software development process that is becoming well practiced in how organisations make progress. Good organisations take a people centric approach to agile processes. This issue and two others were my main takeaways from the conversation on competency in a Business Leaders Forum I chaired in Melbourne this week. (posted from New York City)

#agile #business #competency for #longterm #strategy #communication #values for better #outcomes and #results

We all live two lives. The second one begins when we realise we have only one life.