future mapping
the why and the how
future mapping
What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable,
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
We need to play at living in the kind of world we want to create.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
... See moreMost 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.
Patrick Tanguay (Sentiers) • 📡 No.338 — Is AI Progress Slowing Down? ⊗ Future Orientation ⊗ the Power of Critical Sensemaking
It is a fallacy to plan for ‘the future’ (singular). We need to be prepared for multiple futures (plural) and build into our strategies a flexibility that allows us to move resilient from the present moment towards the future. Being aware of the different paths the future might take, leads to more realistic and flexible strategies that will be more
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