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Curated Newsletter Series: Leadership & Business Strategy
Most strategic planning processes are better at capturing the past than anticipating the future. The leaders who consistently outperform don't just plan better. They see differently.
Curated Newsletter Series: Human Edge & Values
As AI advances, the most strategically valuable skills are turning out to be distinctly human. Curated reads on judgment, ethics, creativity, and what we should refuse to optimize away.
Curated Newsletter Series: Future of Work & Careers
The WEF projects 170 million new roles and 92 million displaced ones by 2030. Most organizations are still hiring for the world as it was.
Curated Newsletter Series: AI & Technology Futures
Every week brings a new AI headline — what's harder to find is a clear-eyed view of what AI is actually redesigning around itself, and what that means for the decisions you're making right now.
What Is Strategic Foresight? A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
The future isn't one thing — it's a range of possibilities. Strategic foresight is how leaders prepare for more than one version of it.
Design, Strategy, Futures, and What Really Matters
It matters not what you call it, as long as the human centricity and creativity, and now the super-charged future-forwardness, are leveraged to your advantages, you will see positive business impact.
The Magic of Storytelling
Future scenarios are based on the data and insights from the research phase, where we take rigorous steps to scan, collect, analyze, and prioritize information to inform the scenario building. They effectively help the audience create solutions that are both innovative and practical.
The Collective Futures
We aspire to facilitate a shift in leaders across industries to be more daring with their goals and more responsible with their environmental and societal duties, so that we are more able to collectively create a better future together, for all of us.
Creative Rigor: The TBD Futures Process
It’s a marriage of two disciplines that already share the foundational love for research, ambiguity, and actionability. They supercharge each other by leveraging and amplifying their strengths.
Why Dystopia is Precious
Opportunities belong to those who dare to stare adversity in the eye and remain creative and strategic despite the difficulties.
Why The Futures
To be future-prepared means business according to research. It takes both defensive and offensive moves to thrive in this crazy world. And there are 2 types of leaders that are ready Futures thinking.
Our Mental Time Machine
An innate ability that propelled human advancement, and the most important thing I learned as a futurist consultant.