I NEED THAT

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Benjamin Franklin

18th century American statesman/scientist/philosopher

And much need arises from not having planned for arising needs. 

You can't foresee them all but you can and should anticipate many.

Prepare To Succeed

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur

19th century French scientist

You'd expect a scientist to say this but what about in business?

It is true for anything that matters.

Success comes with preparedness.

Expecting? What?

"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointment or gratified, we want to be expecting again."

Samuel Johnson

18th century British author

Anticipation is often better than having what is anticipated.

How do you use that to your advantage in business?

How do you deal with it when you can't?

The Business of Optimism

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that is also true of trouble."

Elbert Hubbard

19th century American author/editor/publisher

You will get beyond whatever is ahead, good and bad, just as you have every time before.

Every sunny day turns to night, every storm eventually ends. 

Prepare, have faith, keep going.

Planning For The Inevitable Future

"The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them."

Senaca

1st century AD Roman philosopher

It's called destiny for a reason, but that doesn't mean there is nothing you can do to shape the future.

Understood, to some degree, "inevitable" events can be manipulated; however you have know what they likely will be as well as plan what you will do as a result.

Do you?

Management Anticipation

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."

Hannah Green
Author

Applied to business, a company with few if any obvious problems is not necessarily in good shape. I know of many whose management complacently accepts the status quo with no apparent understanding of what lay ahead.

The best managers get paid more for seeing what others cannot.

How's your company when it comes to anticipation?