
At Work with The Ready AUA: Your Team Isn't Ready For Your Future
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Nov 24, 2025 Discover how to guide your team into the future without leaving them behind. The hosts explore the challenges of being a visionary and the loneliness that can come with it. Learn to communicate ambitious ideas in digestible ways and implement small, practical experiments to build trust. They emphasize the importance of establishing a network of like-minded futurists for support. Finally, find ways to nurture your innovative spirit outside your organization to maintain momentum and enthusiasm.
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Show, Don’t Thought-Lead
- Avoid 'thought leading' your colleagues; resist pontificating about the distant future.
- Show the future through small, practical experiments to build credibility and curiosity.
Treat Future Views As Testable Hypotheses
- Hold long-horizon hypotheses privately and translate them into present tests and signals.
- Keep a feedback loop between your future hypothesis and small present experiments to validate ideas.
Patience Is Part Of Foresight Work
- Being 'a few years ahead' requires patience and self-awareness about how your message lands now.
- People won't instantly sync to your timeline; influence requires translation into present meaning.
