I came across a blog post by commenting on Congressman Paul Ryan saying that Preventing Gay Marriage Part of America’s …
Teaching about the Future is here!
The second book-writing collaboration between Peter Bishop and myself has produced a new textbook, Teaching about the …
Know your foresight audience
During class last night on visualization techniques, a discussion emerged around when to try these techniques and with …
Values and consumption
Saw a piece “European Automakers Face Diminished Future” and checked it out to see if there might be a “values” …
Futurists’ focus on the outside neglects its own inside
Futurists routinely make the point to clients that they are so focused on their own industry and its trends and …
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Great list of books on global education
I was forwarded a list: 14 Best Books about Global Education [link removed per organization's request, sorry] and it is …
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New Values Types Summary Graphic
Could no longer avoid the Saturday morning to-do list item: "create summary graphic of values types described in …
India experiencing the transition to modern values
The Pew Center, always an excellent source of data, posted some useful data on the status of India’s economy and society …
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Zero Energy House: A Soft Path Indicator?
The New York Times ran an interesting piece Zero Energy Construction Crosses the Ocean on “passive house,” or …
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Seven Grand Challenges for Consumer Products Companies for the Next Decade
Had to pull together some thoughts recently on what ConsumerShift implied for consumer products companies. Here’s the …
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The Future of Youth Happiness
BeInkandescent just re-ran a piece I did a few years ago on the Future of Youth Happiness that summarized a consulting …
Enoughness and the Future of Communications Research
UH Certificate in Strategic Foresight alum Robert Moran, now a quoted me around "enoughness" in his piece "The Future of …
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Surviving a hack
In case you've been wondering why I've been quiet lately....my site was hacked. Basically, if you searched for pages on …
A futurist perspective on coolhunting
I recently did an interview on coolhunting: weak signals, trends, and fads for icoolhunt. I can imagine some of my …
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Speculative fiction and the future
An interesting post on “speculative fiction” and the future suggests 15 novels that were best at forecasting the future, …
Houston Futures Certificate Alums featured in The Futurist
I was happy to see that two of our week-long Certificate in Strategic Foresight alums were recently featured in …
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Are postmodern values enough?
In my file of “interesting ideas” I had stashed a nice blog post called “free your mind” from the YES website – a quite …
Values changes suggest not buying stuff is not temporary
Josh Allen Dykstra in Fast Company recently explored “why millennials don’t want to buy stuff.” He noted that “the …
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Emerging Need State 23: Expanding accountabilities
Holding partners to high standards such as the triple bottom line, community contribution, shared values and …
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Emerging Need State 22: The truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth
Preference for the unvarnished truth, which increases credibility “The truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth” …
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Emerging Need State 21: Trusted partners for the new insecurity
Requiring trusted partners in turbulent times, with the economy, terror, resource shortages, environmental issues, …
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Is Homo Economicus in decline?
A few comments on an interesting brief post How the 'Free Market' Is Consuming Our Values on a book by Harvard professor …
Emerging Need State 20: Making a difference
Looking for ways to make a tangible difference rather than the pursuit of idealistic grand schemes “Making a …
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Emerging Need State 19: Global citizens
Thinking of the ramifications one’s goals and activities beyond national borders with a genuine concern for planetary …
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The Evolution of Integral Futures @ WFS
Here are the slides from the session that Terry Collins and I did at the WFS Toronto conference on the Evolution of …
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An Insiders Guide to Foresight Consulting
Hello to all who attended the workshop that Riel and I gave today (and hello to regular blog readers as well!). Here are …
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Workshopping and Speaking at World Future Society this weekend
I'm heading off to the World Future Society's Annual Conference in Toronto this weekend. I previously posted about the …
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Emerging Need State 18: Trust the network
Placing trust in one’s extended personal network or a "crowd sourced" community of interest over traditional …
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Emerging Need State 17: Community support
Requiring that partners provide local distribution of benefits and/or are investing in the community “Community …
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To Organizational Futurists: Enter the Fray!
An interesting learning from my dissertation on the role of organizational futurists in integrating foresight into …
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