Claim Your Company’s Future in the Changing World

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In this week’s Quick Take, we discuss what it takes to go beyond best practices to claim your company’s future in the constantly changing world.

Like us, maybe you read the June 8 2026 Wall Street Journal report “The Best Companies For the Future.” The authors stated that the purpose was to “evaluate and rank  how well companies in the S&P 500 are doing with measures intended to match up  with future success.” The report sets out six categories of metrics that other companies can aspire to achieve in order to succeed in the future.

Find out why we believe that today’s “future-ready” metrics would not have predicted many of today’s dominant companies at their earlier stages, before they reshaped the world. We also discuss how “best practices” copied  from a “best company” can become “your worst nightmare.”

Instead, we make the case for claiming your unique company’s future by applying two broad leadership principles framing what we call “The Growth Igniters® Matrix.” We show how these two principles interact to create four quadrants of leadership. Becoming aware of where you aspire to be and where you really are in the Growth Igniters® Matrix can be pivotal to achieving success in both the short term and the future. It can serve as the starting point for reimagining your leadership in ways that best fit your unique culture and stakeholders in a constantly changing world.

“We can learn from the leaders, but we don’t need to copy them to be successful.” – Pam Harper

This week on Growth Igniters® Radio:

• Why we question whether today’s “future-ready” metrics would have predicted present-day dominant companies  earlier in their growth, before they reshaped the world
• Why “best practices” copied from someone else’s company can become your “worst nightmare”
• The case for claiming your company’s unique future by applying two interacting leadership principles
• Introducing The Growth Igniters® Matrix, and how it can become a starting point for reimagining leadership for in the constantly changing world

Resources for This Episode

• Read The Wall Street Journal‘s lead story on their 2026 List of “Best Companies for the Future” (subscription required)
• Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”

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