Jack Uldrich > Quotes

“Remember, courage isn’t the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of the feeling of fear.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Push into your discomfort zone!”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Albert Einstein was once asked this question: “If you only had an hour to solve a problem and your life depended upon getting the correct answer, how would you spend your time?” Einstein replied: “I’d spend the first fifty-five minutes making sure I was answering the right question.” It is a wonderful response. Why? Because in today’s accelerating world, future business leaders must spend more time making sure they are asking—and answering—the right question.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Therefore, anticipate cheapness.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Once a year, lock your office door and leave for a “think week”—ideally to a remote location with ample exposure to Mother Nature—and ruminate about the “day after tomorrow.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“If you want to get uncomfortable, find the “missing i’s”: Hire innovative, imaginative, independent, iconoclastic, intelligent, and inquisitive individuals who will challenge assumptions, question the status quo, and otherwise bring up unusual and uncomfortable ideas and suggestions. These individuals are also more likely to seek out unshared information, find undiscovered paths, and conjure up unimagined alternatives. As a result, these individuals are going to expand your mind, widen your horizons, and push the boundaries of what you may think is prudent, wise, or even possible.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“When exactly the virus got on an airplane and departed Wuhan isn’t exactly known, but the world changed that day. It underwent a “phase change.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“you should regularly ask your staff, employees, and customers: “Can you tell me something I don’t want to hear?”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“In this same vein, tomorrow’s unusual, unconventional, and unthinkable companies will be created from sensor technology, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G networks, synthetic biology, genomics, 3D printing, and robotics.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“The passport to a better life is to think about your death occasionally.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“They accept that failure is an integral component of moving forward and, instead, create an environment where “unsafe” thinking and failure are encouraged, recognized, and rewarded.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Don’t underestimate technology.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Too often people are focused on the “urgent” at the expense of the important.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“As Tony Robbins said, “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“LEAD LIKE YOU’RE RIGHT, BUT LISTEN LIKE YOU’RE WRONG”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“To gain a fresh perspective on an old industry, it helps to listen and learn from younger people. A great way to formalize this process is to get a reverse mentor—a younger person who has less experience in your industry. (What you might see as a “lack of experience” can be viewed from a different perspective as being unburdened by assumptions, biases, and conventional wisdom.)”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“If you want to get uncomfortable, find the “missing i’s”: Hire innovative, imaginative, independent, iconoclastic, intelligent, and inquisitive individuals who will challenge assumptions, question the status quo, and otherwise bring up unusual and uncomfortable ideas and suggestions.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Standing has the added benefit of making people uncomfortable. As a result, it tends to focus people’s minds and move them to action that much faster.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“A more contemporary example is COVID-19. It’s too soon know the full extent of its impact, but a number of businesses, including retailers, airlines, hotels, universities, and commercial real estate properties, which may have previously considered themselves “unsinkable,” will be “sunk” by a tiny virus. To avoid a similar fate in the future, every business must understand that resilience is often as important as efficiency and profits, and that long-term viability isn’t always defined by financial success—sometimes it is defined by the ability to survive.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“If something both excites you and scares you, it is probably worth doing.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Others include “The Vowel” rule: How do we need to Adapt? How is our world Evolving? How can we Innovate? Can we Organize differently? What do we need to Unlearn? WhY do we do things the way we do them?”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“If you don’t want to be caught unaware by the future, lose your perspective because everyone from existing and future customers to your current and would-be competitors is likely viewing things from a perspective different than your own.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business

“Next, think about the future for one simple reason—you are going to spend the rest of your life in the future.”
― Jack Uldrich, Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business