As an animal species humans are hard-wired to intuitively recognise the need for change and to react accordingly. Our ancestors knew when the land was fallow and they had to move on; when the weather was too hot or too cold and find an alternative living space. We knew food was r.

The window between a signal arriving and it demanding a response is shortening. We are hard wired to love change, so stop fighting it is already shaping strategy conversations in forward-looking organisations. Treating it as a future concern rather than a present one builds a preparedness gap that will have to be closed under pressure.

The most important question is not whether We are hard wired to love change, so stop fighting it will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.