Comments on: Do You Lead Through Hindsight, Insight or Foresight?

By: Grant Hamilton

Grant Hamilton — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:16:36 +0000

This is very thought provoking and certainly started me thinking about what my focus is as a leader and of course all there have been relevant at different times. I can see the benefits of each aspect depending on the situation. Past, present and future is an essential focus for all leaders to take their vision further.

Really enjoy reading your blogs Paul and they provide great insight and learnings.

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By: kristel

kristel — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:55:11 +0000

I agree that all three are required to lead, yet I see it as a scale & cycle, where the broken link rule applies, without one you cannot use the other, and the cycle will stop and be fruitless,
Cycle example- a farmer to his farm he- plows-plants-tend-harvest-sell-feeds family. With one of these missing in this cycle the rest are pointless and a waste of time as their will never be a crop for that farmer! This is all just my mere interpretation! My be slightly twisted or wrong.
Foresight –A action in looking forward. To possible outcomes or problems from an action now! (Plan details through Foresight)
Hindsight- A ability to understand-obtain wisdom or knowledge on a passed event, and the significance & nature within the event, also to understand the impact to society affected within the event (Learn through Hindsight)
Insight – The ability/capacity to perceive or discern a situation or event, intuitively on the true inner nature of things, to understand complex situations, while in them or before them, also the understanding of social cause verse effect of the event or situation.
I think.. Hindsight is always better than Foresight, yet without Foresight, both Hindsight and Insight are Useless!
Therefore I see not only do they fit into a Cycle with broken link rule applied- yet they also relate to a scale with the center being Insight and with Foresight and Hindsight need to come to a balanced scale!

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:20:46 +0000

I love the “Ready… Fire… Aim” challenge. Unfortunately, particularly in these times, too many managers are taking a “Fire, fire, fire….” approach without checking if they are ready or where and when to best aim.

It’s leaders who are take a proactive foresight approach to business who come out winners in the end. This means stopping and planning and repositioning your sighting before moving on.

As I learnt from Paul recently, sometimes the most innovative thing you can do is nothing (ie stop doing what your currently doing).