future mapping
the why and the how
future mapping
imagination, rather than being seen as an ‘essential skill’, is commonly perceived as messy, unpredictable, a bit cheeky, potentially uncontrollable and a frivolous and unprofitable use of time.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Making the right kind of forecast means thinking deeply about where people are headed and what emerging beliefs, behaviors, mentalities, value systems, ideals and cultural ideas can be brought to the surface with the right conditions.
Technology creates new opportunities and branches in the human path, but it is only larger ideas and mindsets that... See more
Technology creates new opportunities and branches in the human path, but it is only larger ideas and mindsets that... See more
Jasmine Bina • There Is No Brand Strategy Without a Prediction
Traditionally, organizations have focused on developing specific, easily replicable functional or technical skills. Not only were these skills easier to teach but organizations were also operating in a more stable, predictable environment at the time. In that environment, executing repeatable processes to produce standardized products and services
... See moreUltimately, preserving optionality means paying attention and looking at life from multiple perspectives. It means building a versatile base of foundational knowledge and allowing for serendipity and unexpected connections. We must seek to expand our comfort zone and circle of competence, and we should take minor risks that have potentially large... See more
Farnam Street • Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - Farnam Street
The first one, shifting from groupthink to Responsible Disobedience , is all about unlocking better outcomes. Breaking away from conformity and disobeying the expected, but doing so with a principled compass. Challenging not for the sake of rebellion, but for the pursuit of a sustainable, equitable, and human-centric future.
From Groupthink to Responsible Disobedience
If you can get everybody just to go, what if this assumption isn’t true? We need to imagine a different reality… If you can get just a proportion of people to do that...
We need to deepen our storytelling of one specific kind of story, however – namely, the kind of story that can allow us to imagine a future replete with possibility.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think transformationally, act transitionally ” to manifest futures-empowered landscapes of care, empathy, reconciliation, and love in our organizations, governments, and social entities, allowing us to align with much healthier expressions of our biological, psychological, and sacred experiences
TFSX • The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Cultures vary in the degree to which they value openness and tolerate uncertainty. Some cultures lead people to experience anxiety in situations that are ambiguous or unpredictable, and these cultures are structured in ways that make the world seem more stable and predictable through strict rules and laws, shared beliefs, and circumscribed ways of
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