Scott D. Anthony

You put a container around it.

You put a projectile in it, we can do some interesting things with militaries as well.

Somehow it crosses over to Europe, people keep experimenting, et cetera, et cetera.

This is a very persistent part of the stories of disruption.

Disruption rewards patience.

It's not something where, pardon the pun, there's a big bang and all of a sudden overnight the world changes.

It takes time.

It takes iteration.

It takes experimentation before you get there.

There are other lessons, of course, in the chapter, but those are the two big ones that really struck me as I was going through it.

It is a truly fantastic question.

And we now get to bridge a little bit into some of the material in the book that is yet to be written, which is about how do you really lead through disruptive change?

And I love the metaphors that you've given because that's exactly what you need.

You need this duality.

almost a paradox in your mind where you are simultaneously thinking about long-term future and present reality recognizing if you don't care and deliver for today you don't earn the right to do tomorrow but if you don't have a vision a direction to which you're trying to go to for tomorrow the efforts that you have in today are going to be misguided or even counterproductive

And the thing that I generally counsel leaders to do is make sure that you just stop and you apply different timeframes and mental models as you're looking at different things that you are trying to decide around.

And it's a wonky word, but I think an important one.

And I think if you were to peer into Elon Musk's brain or Steve Jobs's brain or whatever, you would see this.

You need to have metacognition, which means you are thinking consciously about how you are thinking.

And saying, okay, what hat am I putting on?