Temporalagility: a plan required ab

Temporalagility: a plan required ability to move comfortably between multiple future time horizons (Bird and Jelinek 1988). Long-term thinking is important to have a clear vision and to form long-term relationships (with bankers, strategic actors, etc.) while entrepreneurs are necessarily short-term actors. They must have a predisposition towards immediate action and a ‘do it now’ orientation to move from dreams into reality (the ‘action bias’ noted by Peters and Waterman 1982; cited by Bird and Jelinek 1988).