Who you are
We’re not for everyone. Second Horizon is designed to illuminate the question; to facilitate critical, long term thinking and in time to test and share that thought. So, we don’t chase the news. We consider it is more important to really understand the question than to know the answer.
And you? The Information Revolution has brought us the Algorithmic Age, where the echo chambers of traditional and social media are filled by a cacophony of truths. Meanwhile, almost all of what almost everyone does is to make existing systems work - companies, departments, legal cases, campaigns. And almost all the information everyone uses is measurement - money, markets, plans. Compliance with the law, with HR policy, and with the zeitgeist is all critical, but conventional. Management is of risk to prospects, performance or reputation, or of immediate opportunity - survival or growth.
Second Horizon is for the small proportion of people who aspire not to management but to leadership, of systems, people or thought. Their work is the difference between survival and success, and which depends not on measurement, but on insight, discovery, explanation and vision.
A characteristic of those who have moved or who seek to move from management to leadership is that they give themselves time and space to think beyond the operation of systems into the future, to consider the pace and direction of their travel. This is the difference between drifting and driving.
If you have or aspire to this privilege of leadership, you will need to see further than the first horizon. You will already have data and information, and the means to use them. What you need, and what will set you apart, is what is sometimes called the clarity of altitude - the ability to make sense of the inevitable overload, identify what is changing the world at such otherwise bewildering speed, and set your course - and that of many others - accordingly.
The Perivista Premise is that almost everything that almost everyone thinks is important, actually isn’t. That includes climate change, the future of warfare, and almost everything to do with any employment - white collar first, then blue collar as robotics catches up with AI. On the other hand, our future really is being shaped by changing demography, by the cascading impact of the data economy, and by the turmoil of floundering politics in an age of weakening states. Membership of the Perivista community allows decision makers to focus on those strategic aspects of demography, democracy and data which will shape the world of the later Twenty-first Century - the Second Horizon.