Are your customers disappearing and incomes going down while your expenses increase? Perhaps are some of the employees on the bench without tasks, or resources hard to find? Do consumer trends, sharing economy, globalization, or drop in oil prices seem to be impacting on your business?

Hopefully, as the best of scouts, you are well prepared for this quarter, this term, the coming mid-year review or the current fiscal year. Then again maybe not.

What about worse, are you prepared for worse? For possible upcoming longer term challenges?

You may never have thought of the fourth industrial revolution or World Economic Forum’s top global risks, these seemingly quite distant and vague topics. Can you imagine those topics having any impact on your life over the coming years?  An impact on you, your work, your community, friends, family or even future grandchildren?

It can be hard to visualise and understand a bigger picture, even more so the unknown future- I have in this text...