Futuresinfocus

If you sit on a board, then it is likely the following statements are common feelings about them. You receive a foot-thick set of pre-read documents and reports a week or so before the board meeting. The agenda is very tight, measured in minutes like a day in an NFL training facility. The feeling that you are going to spend a day or longer with some of the brightest people you have ever met, but you only really get to have deep discussions at lunch, maybe for the evening meal or possibly for an hour between agenda items. In a world of constant change, organizations that thrive on this idea are five times more successful financially than organizations that do not accept this reality. That capacity to thrive and respond starts at the very highest levels, the company board. To succeed in a world ten years from now dominated by blockchain, remote work is the norm, and everything starts with the digital experience and ideas like the machine economy driven by machines; these board meetings will become inc