Foresight - The Key to Leadership
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0:12Next, Rabbi Shimon says, someone who sees the outcome of the deed. One of the main things that people like to read about today, both past and present, is leadership.
1:33And everyone says, "Yeah, he's really smart. Oh yeah, he's really this, he's really that." But there's one common characteristic that all great leaders have, both past, present, and future, that's rarely talked about. If you don't have this character trait, it's impossible, impossible for you to be a great leader. Anyone want to take a guess? Huh? To be able to see the future, to be able to use something called foresight. People who are smart hire smarter people. That's the best sign that you're smart.
2:34If you're smart and you want to run a business, you hire people who are smarter than you. Because if you're the only smart guy in the company, you're not being wise. Simply put, you have to hire smarter people. Steve Jobs did not create the iPhone himself. In fact, he did not personally create much of anything in the last 10-15 years of his life. However, he had a vision. And the truly intelligent individuals, they put it all together. Same thing with every major company, whether it's Coca-Cola or Pepsi or Ford or anything. They had an idea because of their foresight. They saw that there was going to be a need for something specific. There would be convenience created as a result of their product. They saw something in the future, not now. Steve Jobs knew that not everyone's gonna buy a computer today when he first created the first computer, or first home computer, I should say. He knew that not everyone's gonna buy it. I mean, any logical person would know that. There was nothing to do. There was no internet. There was a typewriter that was digital. You played games on it. You played, I don't know, Tetris or something. It was almost practically a useless machine, just fancy. However, Jobs understood the potential. He had the vision that eventually, this technology could revolutionize the way people interact with information and each other. Much like the earlier text suggests, these pioneers had an intuition about the future utility and impact of their innovations—a belief in the yet unseen possibilities. They were not merely there by chance, but driven by a vision for the future that they actively pursued.
3:57But he saw that the more people got it, the more likely there were going to be other people involved to create other things and take this internet that was basically just used by governments and make it mainstream. Eventually, he was right. Eventually, all of these leaders were right. So it's not that they were in the right place at the right time. That's not true. It's not about being in the right place at the right time. It's knowing where the right place is going to be in order to be there when it happens. You want to be a great leader, you have to be able to put yourself out there and let everyone call you crazy. Let everyone call you crazy. Crazy coming up with this, who's going to ever use a search engine? Well, it's called Google now.
4:57Who's ever going to use this? Who's ever going to use that? Every major company that ever succeeded was called crazy at one point. You must have foresight. That's the business advice. But the spiritual advice is even more important because that's the advice that's going to decide whether you have a good or a bad year. In order for you to use this... Foresight. You have to look at the past, at your past, at your nation's past, and determine what the future is going to be based on that. The last time I looked at a girl, I walked up to her and sinned, so it's better I don't look. The last time I went to this bar fill in the blank: You know, the last time you did XYZ, you did this. The last time I hung out with Joey and Steve, we went to fill in the blank. So, Joey and Steve are not exactly a habit. Not only are they not rebuking me, they're making me sin. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
6:26You have to look at the past. You have to look at what you did in the past the last time you had money. The last time you had money, were you an egotistical maniac? Or were you generous? The last time you had an argument with your wife and you yelled at her, did it actually work out to your advantage? Or did she try to, like, you know, put a little poison in the chulent? How did it work out for you, yelling at your wife? How did it work out for you, yelling at your kids? Did they become smarter? Did they become wiser? Did they get hundreds on the next test, or did they start failing for some strange reason? All of a sudden, they became stupid? No, they didn't become stupid. They just lost all of their confidence because their father yells at them like an animal. Look at the past. Look at the past. Look at the past to see the future. Because that future is going to determine whether you're going to Gan Eden or Gehinnom. Let's not misunderstand that. It's Gan Eden or Gehinnom. There's no in between. It always was.
