planned opportunism

1. Invest in the “Horse You can control”
• The future is like a continually updated
software that must be noticed and
understood.
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s metaphor of two horses –
fate and free will applies to organization and
leaders.
• Focus on horse you can control to manage
other one.

3. • The horse of free will can be steered, but the
horse of fate cannot.
• Planned opportunism is a strategy for exerting
some control over unpredictable circumstances
before they occur.
• Example of : Hasbro, M&M’s and IBM.
• Planned opportunism is a way to take control of
the future.
• Not be passive in the face of unpredictability.