An executive team in a glass-walled boardroom at dusk around a table on which a 10-year strategic roadmap is projected as luminous horizontal timelines; one leader stands, gesturing forward.
Business C1 · Unit 10 · Vision, legacy & the future of work

10B. Looking ten years out

C1 · Advanced Business English · mixed-tense review

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Unit 10 · Epigraph
"By the time we get there, we will have been building it for a decade."
— after Peter Schwartz
Objectives

What you'll be able to do

4 min
  • Layer the four tense-questions of a decade's arc in a single opening paragraph — past perfect, present perfect continuous, third conditional and future perfect / continuous.
  • Convert an untensed, present-tense strategy paragraph into a mixed-tense narrative a long-horizon reader can locate the firm on.
  • Own a past decision in a third-conditional sentence whose absence would still be visible in ten years' time.
  • Point at the specific fact and the specific duration the decade will, on the record, have delivered.
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