The antidote to burnout is not downtime. It’s awe. The absence of joy amid a weekend engenders restlessness. We can languish while staying low. Vigor arrives only with meaningful activities.

Amidst the whirlwind of 2024 predictions, let’s shift our focus to something extraordinary—the world of animals.

Executives should think ahead about what could go wrong in their project, picture scenarios where things fall apart. Where might the assumptions be wrong?

Ron Westrum describes three types of organization. Depending on how many yesses you had, your company probably lies somewhere between the two extremes.

Seeing what’s next is hard, even when you’re visionary. In strategy planning, managers often look to the past for situations of worst-case scenarios—that is, the most extreme record of past events.

No one can predict innovation despite the eager pundits. They are ones who profess on talk shows without consequences.