Why Business Leaders Must Embrace Unpredictability for Growth

A note to business leaders.
Here’s a good question to ask yourself: “What part of my business today was unforeseeable 10-years ago?”

If the answer is “not much”, then you’re not being bold enough. You’ve become too risk averse.

Life is inherently unpredictable. So if your life and/or business are largely predictable then you’re not letting enough of life’s creative energy in. You’re controlling its flow too tightly.

Ten years ago, I would have been surprised to learn that EG would:
– acquire a development site with a gross realisation in excess of AUD
1.5 billion
– become a leading global incubator of prop tech and fin tech
– invest in, acquire or co-found nine other companies
– introduce a paid sabbatical program
– attempt a world record for the largest human image of a house, to raise funds for charity
– take the team on various trips to Rio, New York, Tokyo, the Caribbean, Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef to celebrate achieving our milestones
– launch three charitable foundations in Australia, two in Lebanon and two in Manila
Plans are well and good but life has a way of messing with your plans – often in a good way.

Don’t become too predictable.

Meet life’s creative energy with an open and courageous heart – and it will surely take you on a fun, fascinating and wildly unpredictable ride.