With the new year comes our annual tradition of recognizing three CEOs of the year for their accomplishments over the last 12 months–as well as three CEOs who are on the hot seat after a year of struggles.
Such an effort at accountability can teach us a lot about the future, as glancing backward is often a valuable guide to the path forward. While there can be surprise technological and market disruptions, classical Newtonian mechanical physics’ suggestions that trajectories are the flight paths determined by mass positioning, direction, and momentum as a function of time can help us make accurate predictions.
