Today’s column is a continuation of the column on reaching the Complexity Horizon. It’s part of a series I call “Leading Through Complexity.” Which is about the challenges that young companies face when they transition from starting up to operating – or as I often say – when they stop talking runway and start talking altitude.

Future Perfect Tense:  is a verb tense used to describe an action that will have been completed before a specified point in the future. It is formed using “will have” followed by the past participle of the main verb.


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Founder and CEO at SideKickSixtyFive Consulting and host of the Terranauts podcast. Iain is a seasoned business executive with deep understanding of the space business and government procurement policy. Iain worked for 22 years at Neptec including as CEO. He was a VP at the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, is a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab and a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management.