Future-Focused Leadership: Pre-Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today

Daniel Burrus
4 min readMay 23, 2024

Is it better to live a successful life or a significant one? The better question here is: Is it better to only work in the name of bettering your own situation or to leave the world a better place than how we found it?

As an entrepreneur and advisor of organizations both large and small around the globe, I can tell you that it is much more advantageous to pursue significance over success, as significance almost certainly always leads to success.

In my Anticipatory Leader System, I define significance as what we hope to achieve for others, using our business prowess for the betterment of society and humankind. By putting ourselves at the service of others, it adds meaning to what we do, and in the age of accelerated digital transformation, the possibilities are truly endless in what we can achieve.

Pre-Solve Tomorrow’s Problems Today

In the realm of prioritizing significance over success, using Hard Trend future certainties to pre-solve problems is more about finding ways to pre-solve others’ problems, not just your own, before they become major issues.

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Daniel Burrus

#1 Bestselling Author, Global Futurist, Innovation Expert and Keynote Speaker. One of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation.