What if there were a way to be more confident about what the future holds?
Most workplace futurists focus on what will be different tomorrow. There’s tremendous value in flipping the perspective, and instead asking what won’t change.
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos remarked that focusing on what won’t change is critical to building an effective strategy:
I very frequently get the question, “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’” And that is a very interesting question. It’s a very common one. I almost never get the question, “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?
And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.
Jeff Bezos, AWS re:Invent Day 2, 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4MtQGRIIuA&t=267s)
This series will explore what won’t change in the world of talent, so you can build an effective strategy for the future.