future mapping
the why and the how
future mapping
the why and the how
when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
“in being dull, we are excluding consumers from being able to participate in the benefits of what we have to offer. And internally, when we're being dull in terms of internal communication, we're excluding our colleagues from the ability to participate and contribute to how we want to be successful, how we want the business to be successful.” From
... See moreOrganizations can help cultivate these capabilities by providing workers with the tools and safe spaces to experiment, explore, and envision possible futures. By empowering workers to ask questions about their work, leaders can lean into a more open evolution and disruption of work that values human sustainability and organization-wide co-creation.
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And basically, my gripe is, we collectively generally treat every transition the way I used to treat “time for recess”: This is just going to happen, so let’s not focus on how it’s going to happen, or whether the getting there is hard. Let’s just get from here to there, OK? And then we can be there and forget about here.
Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity. But whether we’re talking
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