My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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I had the good fortune to be following Alex “Sandy” Pentland at the APQC Knowledge Management Conference last May. I was …
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I have been emphasizing the need for futurists and foresight to better deliver on client needs and expectations for the …
I have been involved with the APF Most Significant Futures Works awards (MSFW) program since we started it in 2007 and …
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I recently posted some findings on the Houston Foresight blog from an alumni survey. The survey was undertaken as a …
I am so proud to share that Houston Foresight students won first, second, and third place of the Individual Graduate …
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So what would you put in a time capsule today to be dug up 30 years from now? That question framed a thirty minute …
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Last we talked about three futurist roles. Along those lines are the different ways that we go about performing those …
As a futurist, it’s always helpful to know what’s expected of you…and what you want to do. BTW, I think they deserve …
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Another theme that’s been popping up lately in my work is Pierre Wack’s original notion suggested that exploratory …
Been having some interesting discussions about scenarios lately and think we might have a few blog posts brewing here. …
It’s been great to have a little design help in order to better communicate what we do at the Houston Foresight program. …
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One more entry in the wildcard series (for now, at least). In the last piece we raised the point about wildcards not …
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A truly brilliant article title (and article) from Elina Hiltunen, “Was It a Wild Card or Just Our Blindness to Gradual …
A couple of weeks ago in World Futures, we had a class on wildcards. Yesterday, I just had a client conversation about …
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The Houston Foresight Week-Long Certificate program is making its 5th annual visit to Brussels in partnership with the …
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It seems that each Spring in ProSeminar class we eventually get to the topic of the hybrid futurist. This year it came …
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names that have been suggested for the next economy. While I would not claim to …
I am pleased to be teaching the “Introduction to Foresight” class at this summer’s World Future Society Assembly in San …
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I was recently on a panel discussion for “The Future of the Global Workforce” for the Houston chapter of the World …
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The APF Professionalization Task Force has moved from planning to action and the first action is developing a competency …
We have known for some time that the financial economy is an order of magnitude (or more) greater than the real economy. …
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The Sunday NY Times had a piece highlighting a high-profile divorce case involving a CEO that hinges on “active versus …
I was drawn by the headline: “We’re No. 1.” Aha, this must have something to do with modern values. [That’s what happens …
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Thought-provoking article in the Sunday NY Times: Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable? The article introduces Fermi’s …
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I hope regular readers of this blog are comfortable with the notion that resistance to change is the norm, and that …
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The Sunday NY Times had a piece “Playing Dumb on Climate Change” that reminded me of the challenges of balancing …
A Sunday New York Times piece on “the new allure of sacred pilgrimages” suggested “one in three tourists worldwide is on …
Aren’t futurists already professionals? Well, sure, depending on how strictly one defines a professional. The …
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Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with integral values at the leading edge of values change today, with …
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