Sooner or later, you will be asked to lead a tiger team. In common parlance, a tiger team refers to a small, highly skilled group of specialists assembled to solve a specific, high-stakes problem or to tackle a critical project, often within a short timeframe.

In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become smarter than humans. He called this inflection point the “singularity,” and it struck a chord. Kurzweil, who’s been tracking artificial intelligence since 1963, gained a fanatical following, especially in Silicon Valley.

I used to think summer vacations should be a time to not think. Turn off the brain, tune out and drop off the map was the idea. Read a mystery novel or biography. Take a dip in a different pool. And above all, don’t follow the news cycle or get tethered to the goings-on back at the office.

All too often these days, leaders of companies hammered by rapid market fluctuations admit to being blindsided by change. “We were focused on firefighting,” admitted one CEO after the company’s stock plummeted 34 percent.

On average, you make 700 decisions daily, most of them of little importance. But some decisions are worth examining because they are of great importance.