Own the Future:50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group

The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale -- along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility.  Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow.  Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future.

In our summary of Own the Future, The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap.  Own the Future’s editors are Michael Deimler, BCG senior partner and managing director; Richard Lesser, BCG president and CEO; David Rhodes, chairman of BCG’s global practices; and Janmejaya Sinha, chairman of BCG’s Asia Pacific region.

Drawing on the firm’s experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, the book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization’s path to future leadership.  While this summary can’t cover all 50 ideas, it will bring you the key points for each of the 10 attributes that BCG considers critical to success in the current environment -- adaptive, global, connected, sustainable, customer-first, fit to win, value-driven, trusted, bold, and inspiring.

The future may be unknowable, but this summary offers insights from BCG’s 50 years of practice on how readers can position their organization to win -- to change the game and to own the future.