Pursue your strengths and give back until it hurts

Following are my notes from a recent talk at the Perth Young Professional meeting on 23 April 2015.

The world is changing at an accelerated pace. Five-year and three-year plans are no longer reliable. They are almost redundant. The taxi industry, for example, would never have predicted the transformation of its business model three to five years ago.

Today, businesses need to look at daily and weekly changes in their environment, interpret them, and adapt accordingly.

Innovation is as much about planned abandonment, as it is about creative strategy.

Jobs, professions and even careers are no longer the singular lifetime commitment they used to be.

This generation will likely change careers two or three times over the span of their 50-60 year working term.

So what then, must we pursue?

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