Sound Wisdom Blog
Predicting the Future by Jim Stovall
We go to school to learn history and become conversant in things that happened in the past. We read newspapers and get online newscasts that inform us about everything going on in the present. Potentially, the most valuable time-sensitive information would be what is going to happen in the future. Each year, as the calendar turns over, pundits make their predications for the coming twelve months. It is fascinating to look back in retrospect to see what these self-proclaimed experts predicted a year ago and how badly they missed the mark. Abraham Lincoln said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
The Year 2020 by Jason Hewlett
“Worst year ever!”
“Can’t wait until this one’s over!”
“The dumpster fire that is 2020.
Plenty of lines and ways to describe a most indescribable year.
We’ve heard them all, and said most of them, in an effort to put into words what has been experienced.
A Question for the New Year by Sam Silverstein
One of the questions I ask leaders—a question that sometimes makes them a little uncomfortable—is a fairly simple, direct one: Do you tell your people the truth? It’s a deeply relevant question, I think, as we begin the new year.

