It’s a bird, its a plane no its a flying car seems to be a real possibility now, with Toyota’s SkyDrive taking to the test sky’s this week on the back of similar tests from many other new players in this space. This comes hard on the heels of Amazon Prime receiving American FAA (.

When signals like Flying cars and parcels taking off soon 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 Flying cars and parcels taking off soon 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.