Nimble Future: Reinterpret Your Past, Protect Your Present, Engage In Your Future

By Gary Mottershead

Is the Future of Your Business Driven by Fear or Faith?

If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that our tomorrows are filled with uncertainty. While we cannot control what is coming, we can be fully prepared. Adaptation ena

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ethos Collective
• Release date: Mar 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9781636802497

Gary Mottershead

Gary Mottershead is always looking toward the future.By asking questions about what's most important, Gary helps create a motivating picture of the future and a plan for moving forward.With over 20 years of experience working with recycled rubber and industrial products, Gary is leading his industry to new ways of doing business with suppliers in China. Not only has he managed to eliminate the risk from using international sources, but he's also shifting these imports from being perceived as "bargain goods" to being proven as reliable, quality materials that meet or exceed Western standards.But even though his background is in manufacturing and chemical engineering, Gary believes it's important for specialists to still consider themselves entrepreneurs. "You get into it by being a technician," he says, "but you can't stay a technician for very long. You have to be able to think about and direct where the business is going."Gary became an entrepreneur in 1989. Having left a position at DuPont, he went to work for a friend, but the friend decided to sell the company. Gary was offered another job, but, he says, "I just couldn't take it. I had a huge desire to do something that hadn't been done before, and to do it on my own." He and his wife had just had a child, two of his family members were ill, and the economy was in recession. "It was a crazy time," Gary says, but he jumped in anyway and started a company that specialized in recycling tires.

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Endorsements

In the more than 30 years I've known Gary Mottershead as both a client and associate coach for Strategic Coach ® , I've observed his rare ability to adapt to new circumstances, gain lessons from his unique experiences, use those lessons to achieve tremendous success, and transmit his wisdom to Strategic Coach ® 's entrepreneurial clients to help them grow and navigate through an ever-changing world. With Nimble Future , Gary consolidates his insights into a clear and simple guide that encourages the reader to think about their thinking, prepares them for what's coming over the next two decades in terms of technology and new complexities, and provides the keys to future-proofing their business and overcoming fears and obstacles. A must-read for the future-focused, always-growing entrepreneur.

—Dan Sullivan

Co-Founder & President, Strategic Coach®

I’m proud to endorse Gary’s latest book, Nimble Future. I’ve known Gary for over 30 years, and he has been my coach at Strategic Coach® for more than ten years. In this book, he brings his wisdom, insights, and stories together so that we can all navigate a nimble future.

When I led the first team to sail the Northwest Passage, we chose a boat that was the ultimate in nimbleness to sail fast, haul across the ice, get off the stormy ocean, and allowed us not just to survive but to succeed in one of toughest environments in the world.

Gary is an amazing coach and communicator because he understands how to ask the right questions, how to challenge you to be nimble, how to think deeper, and what makes your future better.

A nimble mindset is so important as we navigate an unknowable future. All we know is that the future will not be like the past. Read this book to gain a deeper understanding for creating your own nimble future.

—Jeff MacInnis

Explorer and Entrepreneur, First Person to Sail the 4,000km Northwest Passage

Author of the best-selling book Polar Passage

Founder and President at WIN Thinking

Having known Gary on a personal level for years, I wholeheartedly endorse his latest masterpiece, Nimble Future: Reinvent Your Past, Protect Your Present, Engage in Your Future. Gary, an exemplary entrepreneur and visionary, distills decades of experience into this insightful guide.

In Nimble Future, he not only imparts invaluable business strategies but shares authentic wisdom gained through facing challenges head-on. Gary's commitment to building robust relationships, emphasizing clarity of purpose, and demystifying technology resonates profoundly.

This book stands out not just for its profound insights but for Gary's genuine desire to help others. If you're searching for a mentor within the pages of a book, Nimble Future is the personal guide you've been looking for.

—Ted Kerr

CFP®, Founder/CEO of Touchstone Capital, Inc.

Author of Killing Time, A Parable for the Present Age

Gary has the rare capability of being firmly grounded in a strong foundation yet agile enough to adapt for the future. If you’re looking for insights that stand the test of time while continuing to grow, this book is for you.

—Evan Ryan

Founder of Teammate AI

Author of AI as Your Teammate

Gary Mottershead has a great talent at cutting through the noise and getting to the root of issues. I always appreciate his insights and his deep thoughtfulness. Nimble Future will help sharpen your thinking of what really matters in our future. Sharpening your thinking will create clearer options, and that will generate confidence in how best to face whatever the future holds.

—Daniel Hammond

Business Interrogation LLC / Customer Driven Leadership LLC.

Author of Customer Driven Leadership,

The Disciplined CEO, and Success Secrets Of Disruptors

Nimble Future is about achieving your desires and appreciating what you achieve. It is filled with practical wisdom and tools to help you make sense of your unique journey through your past, present, and future.

As we are confronted with the exponential growth of technology, data, and change itself, Gary reminds us to relax because technology never takes hold faster than the rate at which people are ready to use it.

Another key takeaway from the book is to focus on what doesn't change rather than what will. It is important to recognize the difference between timely strategies, which relate to what you are doing or pursuing now . . . and timeless strategies, which relate to what you have done, what you are doing, and what you will do. It is the timeless strategies that shape who you are and who you are becoming.

—Howard Getson

CEO, Capitalogix

Nimble Future

Reinterpret Your Past, Protect Your Present, Engage in Your Future

Gary Mottershead

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NIMBLE FUTURE © 2024 by Gary Mottershead. All rights reserved.

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Nimble Future is dedicated to my wife, Karen, who has encouraged me to engage in our future for more than 45 years.

Contents

Foreword

Note to Reader

Introduction

1.What Doesn’t Change Matters

2.The Future Impacts of Technology

3.How To Transform Fear Into Action

4.Failure or Learning?

5.Mutually Beneficial Long-Term Relationships

6.Everything Starts With A Vision

7.Clarity Comes From Simplicity, Not Complexity

8.Crisis: React or Respond

9.Protecting and Recharging Your Energy

10.Teams and Teamwork

11.Belief

12.Priority and Focus

13.Never Waste a Crisis

14.Time

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About The Author

Endnotes

Foreword

Gary Mottershead has a gift. I’ve seen him do it time and time again. He can look into the future with clarity and courage and then readjust to engage that new reality, creating a bigger impact for everyone involved. Thankfully, he’s put a framework behind this genius, and we’re all better because of it.

Welcome to Nimble Future.

Our relationship with time is both intricate and profound. We march through life, facing change at every turn, but when we look back, our path is almost unrecognizable. Especially in the world of business, where uncertainty looms like a shadow, we find ourselves at a crossroads.

Will we forge ahead in faith or let fear bind us to the past?

Gary’s insightful book invites us to reexamine the time we have and even reinvest it with agility and purpose. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and practical wisdom, Gary explains not only how to navigate change, but how to adapt so that change becomes the key to your success rather than its inhibitor.

Gary highlights so many important guiding principles, and he does so with the conviction of someone experienced in managing the twists and turns of life. He tells us that a crystal-clear purpose is the North Star of a successful business. Purpose illuminates the darkest corners of uncertainty, and once you can see clearly in the light of that purpose, the game changes.

Fear paralyzes. Facts empower.

Gary shows us how to shift from fear-driven reactions to evidence-based decisions. In doing so, we unlock the door to success, even in the face of adversity. Further, we see that adversity, especially when it does lead to failure, need not be fatal. Instead, it becomes a stepping stone to innovation. Gary’s insights reveal how setbacks can fertilize