Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

Every post-mortem on a brilliant flop blames bad timing, a comforting explanation because it treats timing like weather. The vision was right, the universe just didn’t show up on schedule. Google Glass wasn’t wrong about head-mounted computing. It needed battery density, social norms, and form factor to mature at once, and Google owned none ofContinue reading “How Much of the Future Does Your Strategy Need?”

We tell corporate transformation as a story about one person. A founder sees around a corner nobody else can see, bets the company on it, and hauls a reluctant organization into the future behind them. It’s a good story. It’s also a convenient one, because it lets everyone else off the hook. If transformation onlyContinue reading “The Governance of Renewal”

Every board asks the wrong question: how confident are you? Confidence is a terrible investment criterion. History is full of executives who were catastrophically wrong with total conviction. Confidence isn’t insight. It’s charisma, or a good run, or enough distance from the downside that you stop feeling it. The question that actually separates enduring companiesContinue reading “What the Future Cannot Escape: A Veto Test for Strategic Bets”