Business Foresight

Prelude

… I can hear the marching feet

They’re moving into the street

Now did you read the news today?

They say the danger’s gone away

But I can see the fires still alight

They’re burning into the night

There are too many men, too many people

Making too many problems

And not much love to go ‘round

Can’t you see this is a land of confusion?

Oh, Superman, where are you now

When everything’s gone wrong somehow?

The men of steel, the men of power

Are losing control by the hour

This is the time; this is the place

So we look for the future

But there’s not much love to go ‘round

Tell me why this is a land of confusion

—“A Land of Confusion,” by Genesis, 1986

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