The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.