The Future Belongs to People Who Can Recognize What Was Not Requested

Executive Field Note 028

Systems answer requests.

Organizations do too.

A question is asked.

A report is produced.

A problem is assigned.

An answer returns.

But some of the most valuable discoveries begin with something no one requested.

An anomaly.

A contradiction.

A possibility outside the assignment.

Intelligence answers the question.

Recognition sometimes notices that another question is waiting.

What becomes possible when someone notices what the organization never thought to ask for?

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