future mapping

In practice, a startup nonprofit has several important distinctions from traditional nonprofits: 1) it begins with a large goal and works backwards to identify incremental steps to achieve that goal, 2) it has an iterative, experimental mindset, and 3) it is an internet first organization.

Most critically, these roles tend to be self-reinforcing. Organizations using fear-based future narratives often develop risk-averse cultures that further reinforce defensive positioning. Conversely, organizations with aspirational future narratives tend to attract optimistic, innovation-minded talent that strengthens their future-positive culture.

Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.

as Albert Einstein was famous for saying, “ No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it ” Put another way, you can’t solve a problem within the context of that problem.

Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.

In tough times, most brands will tend towards path dependency . A study published in the Academy of Management Review showed that good practice quickly becomes best practice, which becomes preferred practice, which becomes locked-in practice. This kind of incumbent thinking will perhaps be even more familiar to those working in an organisation with

Whatever work we do to engage people in making change can be deepened and expanded if it has play at its heart.