49. Anticipation as a skill: What does it look like? | with Tom Hood

Future-Proof

We’ve talked quite a bit in past shows about this notion of “anticipation,” and we’ve talked about this concept as if it’s a skill or competency that you can learn – and it is, but we haven’t spent a lot of time talking about how how you do that.

So, how can you become more anticipatory? How can you train yourself to look for future trends and spot the opportunities those trends provide, and then take advantage of those opportunities before your competition does?

Joining the show again to help us do all of that is Tom Hood, president and CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs. Tom has mastered the art of anticipation by working side-by-side with the person who wrote the book on the subject, quite literally: Daniel Burrus, a world renowned futurist, author of The Anticipatory Organization and Flash Foresight, and creator of a learning system called The Anticipatory Organization that teaches people how to master this crucial skill.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog.

Resources:

• The Anticipatory Organization: Accounting and Finance Edition
• BLIonline.org/AO
• MACPA.org/future-learning
• Read: The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You by Mike Walsh
• Read: The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage by Daniel Burrus

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