future mapping

intellectually humble leaders who are open to alternative views may motivate others to contribute more ideas to discussions.

Incrementalism: The vision must be broken down into incremental steps. If you are building the ecosystem for charter cities, where do you start? Who are the first groups you need to build a coalition with, how to get early wins to demonstrate credibility to various stakeholders? How do you balance the decades long nature of city development with

The joy and the delight of this is to step forward a bit, to be a little bit daring and a little bit courageous, saying, “Well, what if? What if we did that?” We have just played with that idea of what could be possible.

In a world where it’s never been easier to get mediocre approved, Challengers raise their ambitions and create an internal culture of bravery, determined to guide their organisations to let go of their firm grip of the status quo.

Sociologist Elise Boulding calls this ‘temporal exhaustion’, arguing that ‘if one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future.’