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Search every verified Mark Johnson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mark Johnson, co-founder and senior partner of Innosight, has been speaking about "future-back thinking" as a method for organizations to develop long-term strategy. In multiple appearances in 2020, he described this approach as envisioning a desired future state five to ten years out and then working backward to identify the initiatives needed to reach it. He contrasted this with "present-forward thinking," which he said is constrained by current structures and orthodoxies. Johnson cited a case involving a major U.S. automaker that, after using this method, concluded it needed to invest in electrification despite earlier skepticism about consumer demand. Johnson also discussed leadership during crises, drawing on his experience as a former U.S. Navy officer. He referenced Admiral James Stockdale's philosophy of maintaining hope for a positive outcome while being realistic about short-term difficulties. He argued that organizations should balance sustaining their core business with allocating 10 to 20 percent of resources to future-oriented initiatives. Johnson emphasized the importance of learning and humility, stating that "the other side of innovation is learning, and the other side of learning is humility." He described the "tyranny of the urgent" as a barrier to long-term thinking, noting that executives are often consumed by immediate demands and quarterly pressures.
“A visionary leader is able to see past today and in the next number of years and look to a hopeful future one that can create inspiration for an organization or a country or society by being able to make it as clear eyed as possible, more than a vision statement.”
“Vision is about what is the right game; strategy is about winning the game. Strategy operationalizes a vision and is the competitive piece about how you win and achieve what you're intending to do.”
“Disruption theory explains how incumbent organizations continue to improve existing products and services assuming indefinite extension, but disruption occurs when new paradigms create access for a larger population that previously lacked financial means or skills.”
“Clay Christensen was huge in influencing me professionally and personally; his theory of disruption predicted how innovation and growth in business, government, and military could be determined for the benefit of society and business.”
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TCLF's latest conference, Leading with Landscape IV: Transforming North Carolina's Research Triangle, was held on April 13, 2018, at the James B. Hunt, Jr., Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Topics explored include the regionally unique coupling of human and natural systems, how the area’s campus landscapes are serving as “incubators” for innovative planning and design solutions, new projects that are re-evaluating the region’s monuments and memorials, two revered public landscapes—Moore Square and Dix Park—and much more. To learn more about the conference: https://tclf.or…
Recent moral psychology and cognitive science has called into question some of our most deeply entrenched views about moral deliberation, such as the view that moral reasoning involves a calculation of which action would produce the most good. After decades of neglect by moral theorists, the idea that moral cognition is a fundamentally imaginative process is gaining empirical support. I will survey this turn toward moral imagination, and develop John Dewey’s conception of moral deliberation as imaginative dramatic rehearsal, in which we imagine how various scenarios would play out under the in…
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