Your Job is To Create the Future
Your primary responsibility as the leader of your company, non-profit, department, sports team, and family is to create the future. You create the future for the organization you lead by the decisions you make – by the choices you make.
When I talk to leaders like yourself, one of the most engaging conversations we have is about the idea that we can and are creating the future with the decisions we make today. When I give a talk to groups of leaders, my first message is that their primary responsibility is creating the future for their organization.
I talk about this responsibility in a short video below.
My new book, Create the Future, is a guidebook for making difficult decisions when you must get it right. The book gives you the principles of smart decision making and lays out the five-step process that will make you a more successful leader and decision maker. I entitled the book Create the Future because I want to make a clear connection between the choices you make today and where your company will be tomorrow.
Take a moment now and order your copy of Create the Future. Easy to do. CTF will be your decision-making handbook. Some leaders get copies for each member of their leadership team to help them be more successful leaders of their staff. The book’s website is HERE, and you can order it from Amazon HERE.
We posted a fun picture on LinkedIn saying, “Don’t Put Create the Future on your bookshelf”. How often have you ordered a book because you like the author, and it goes unread on your bookshelf? CTF includes whiteboard exercises you will use with your leadership team to be more creative as you develop options for responding to the challenge facing you.
Create the Future will be on your desk as your guidebook for leading your team and making your own decisions, not on your bookshelf.
Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO and Harvard Business School faculty member, recommends CTF, “Rick Williams brilliantly delivers a leadership compass for high-performance companies.”
The Power of Public Art
Public art can be fun, challenging, and amazing. It can build community and raise property values. If you get to Miami, make a point of going to the Wynwood Art District. I go to the Street Art Museum, and I admire the huge art images that bring life to the façades of eight-story buildings in the neighborhood. The public art of Wynwood transformed a backwater commercial district into a vibrant business and residential community.
This painting of an aboriginal face is on the side of a one-story-tall cinder block building in Wynwood. It’s great art!
