I recently finished reading Walter Keichel’s The Lords of Strategy on the recommendation of Peter Bishop. And like all …
Media, the Singularity, and Futurists
I did a brief commentary on a recent article feature “futurist and Google exec Ray Kurzweil’s” latest comments around …
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The push and pull of the future
We reviewed Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars in Alternative Perspectives class last night. The first pillar, mapping, …
Careful in mixing ideology and values
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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Good ideas on how good ideas spread
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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Are we too client focused?
I have been emphasizing the need for futurists and foresight to better deliver on client needs and expectations for the …
APF Most Significant Futures Works Awards 2015
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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The value of a foresight education
I recently posted some findings on the Houston Foresight blog from an alumni survey. The survey was undertaken as a …
Houston Foresight Students Win APF Recognition Awards
I am so proud to share that Houston Foresight students won first, second, and third place of the Individual Graduate …
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2045: What would you put in a time capsule?
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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Expert and Participatory Foresight
Last we talked about three futurist roles. Along those lines are the different ways that we go about performing those …
Futurist Roles: Letting Go, Translating, and Transforming
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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Exploratory and decision scenarios
Another theme that’s been popping up lately in my work is Pierre Wack’s original notion suggested that exploratory …
Scenario confusions
Been having some interesting discussions about scenarios lately and think we might have a few blog posts brewing here. …
The New Framework Foresight Graphic
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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Sudden Impact the Key to Wildcards?
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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Wilcard is a relative term
A truly brilliant article title (and article) from Elina Hiltunen, “Was It a Wild Card or Just Our Blindness to Gradual …
Wildcards, surprises, and disruptions…oh my!
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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Houston Certificate Travels to Brussels
The Houston Foresight Week-Long Certificate program is making its 5th annual visit to Brussels in partnership with the …
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The rise of the hybrid futurist
It seems that each Spring in ProSeminar class we eventually get to the topic of the hybrid futurist. This year it came …
Five More New Economy Concepts
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names that have been suggested for the next economy. While I would not claim to …
WFS Master class: Introduction to foresight
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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Work may be “ending” but don’t quit your job just yet
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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Who wants to play with us?
The APF Professionalization Task Force has moved from planning to action and the first action is developing a competency …
Financial economy detracts from the real
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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Talented or lucky?
The Sunday NY Times had a piece highlighting a high-profile divorce case involving a CEO that hinges on “active versus …
An interesting expression of modern values: record-setting in India
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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Does Development Inevitably Lead to Disaster?
Thought-provoking article in the Sunday NY Times: Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable? The article introduces Fermi’s …
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The cycle of change….and resistance
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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Credible or Provocative?
The Sunday NY Times had a piece “Playing Dumb on Climate Change” that reminded me of the challenges of balancing …