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As you examine PepsiCo leadership, analyze the prototyping, if any, that leadership is undertaking as a way to experiment with the future. Consider whether PepsiCo leadership is following Scharmer's (2008) advice: "This means to prototype the new in order to explore the future by doing, to create a little landing strip of the future that allows for hands-on testing and experimentation".

After researching PepsiCo, does the company use Scharmer's advice?

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As you examine PepsiCo leadership, analyze the prototyping, if any, that leadership is undertaking as a way to experiment with the future. Consider whether PepsiCo leadership is following Scharmer's (2008) advice: "This means to prototype the new in order to explore the future by doing, to create a little landing strip of the future that allows for hands-on testing and experimentation".
"Connecting to one's best future possibility and creating powerful breakthrough ideas requires learning to access the intelligence of the heart and the hand—not just the intelligence of the head" ( Scharmer, 2008).
This one quote summarizes Scharmer's 6th leadership capacity which is the ability of leaders to "prototype" which means to integrate their heads, hearts, and hands to enable them to make key decisions quickly and accurately in assessment of what their future will hold. This unique approach of connecting all ...

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