Cover of Buy the Future
Collection
Leadership
First published
2002
Format
Book

Leadership

Buy the Future

Learning to Negotiate for a Future Better Than Your Present

His most widely studied work on vision, exchange, and the deliberate construction of a future. The foundation of much of the Otabil and Associates training material.

The book argues that the future is not a gift but a negotiated purchase: the present will always trade itself for comfort unless a person pays the price of foresight and discipline.

What this book argues

  • The future is purchased, not inherited.
  • Every person is negotiating between present comfort and future value.
  • Vision is the currency of leadership.
  • A better future requires a deliberate exchange, not a wish.

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