Leadership and Business Wisdom - Practice Comes First.

• Author: Kazmi, S. Kamal Hayder
• Position: Brief article

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi

Decision makers need to factor into their present decisions the "future that has already happened."

Decision makers - in government, in the universities, in business, in the labor unions, in churches - need to factor into their present decisions the future that has already happened. For this they need to know what events have already occurred that do not fit into their present-day assumptions, and thereby create new realities.

Intellectuals and scholars tend to believe that ideas come first, which then lead to new political, social, economic, psychological realities. This does happen, but it is the exception. As a rule, theory does not precede...