“future that has already happened”—and to develop a methodology for perceiving and analyzing these changes.

ACTION POINT: Evaluate the character of the CEO and top management when considering a job offer. Align yourself with people who have integrity.

ACTION POINT: Make sure your nonprofit organization has rigorous tests and yardsticks to measure performance. The Age of Discontinuity

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.

2 January Identifying the Future

1 January Integrity in Leadership

The proof of the sincerity and seriousness of a management is uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character.

4 January Organizational Inertia

ACTION POINT: Come up with a few examples of why management, its competence, its integrity, and its performance, is so decisive to the free world.