Chapter 2
ENVISION YOUR FUTURE TOGETHER
To lead our families into the future, we need to have an idea of where we want to go and why we want to go there. Not coincidentally, this is the sine qua non of leadership.
Rachel and Josh Steiner are full-fledged city people living in downtown Chicago with their two children, Samuel, going on three, and Ethan, ten months old. We asked Rachel and Josh to travel in time fifteen years into the future and describe, vividly and specifically, an ideal day.1 This is what they wrote:
On a Thursday in February, fifteen years from now, our alarm clock wakes us at 6:30 a.m. We hop on “his and hers” spin bikes and crank out thirty-minute rides. Our four kids, three biological and one adopted, are all old enough to ...
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