The Importance of Horizons
There is no data on the future.
Experts have evidence. Entrepreneurs have dreams.
Right now, it poses a challenge as anybody looking for funding on a new venture will know. The demand is for evidence; hard data, reassurance.
Sometimes I need to step back when things get confusing so I have around thirty "anchor" books I go back to and sit with on my desk. Books that have resonated, and are friends. They help me collect and organise my thoughts. Amongst them right now are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie and Three Horizons by Bill Sharpe.
This last book by Bill Sharpe is particularly relevant right now. Part philosophy, part business it's a great framework representing the the three horizons we tend to hold simultaneously - horizon one, the short term "here and now" of performance and commitment - a few years, at best. Horizon three - the long term of our aspirations for our grandchildten and their children, and horizon two, the tr…
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