There’s lots of things on the horizon that might make some of what we now do obsolete or unnecessary and this was the question that Denis Walter of 3AW posed to me and his audience this afternoon. We chatted about recent technological and cultural departures from our past lives l.

When signals like Stop doing that emerge, organisations that engage early have the advantage of choosing their response rather than reacting to events. That gap between those who prepared and those who did not is where competitive positioning is actually made or lost.

The most important question is not whether Stop doing that 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.