A few weeks ago, we explored a few thoughts around the history of the foresight field. APF colleague Ruben Nelson …
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Foresight for changing the world
We’re always exploring new things to teach at the Houston Foresight program. One topic that has come up a lot in recent …
Adding some wow to our projects
Every now and then I like to scan the home library and see if anything I hadn’t read deserves to be promoted, or if …
Transformative scenario planning
I finally got to Transformative Scenario Planning by Adam Kahane. It’s one of those books that stayed too long in my …
Mastery and Foresight Practice
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment does not quite fit in with the foresight classics I’ve been …
Second edition of Thinking about the Future
An updated second edition of Thinking about the Future is now available on Amazon. The foreseeable depletion of the …
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Foresight Classics: Rescuing All Our Futures
Rescuing all our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies was edited by Zia Sardar and published in 1999. It makes a …
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Foresight Classics: Macrohistory and Macrohistorians
It’s about time that I got to Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational …
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Foresight Classics: The Next Three Futures
I’ve been meaning to revisit – or visit for the first time -- foresight classics. I started slowly with a two-part …
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ConsumerShift availability on Amazon fixed
If anyone has tried to get ConsumerShift in the last few months, you may have wondered why the price was routinely over …
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Values and Design Thinking
The increasing partnership between foresight and design over the last several years has nudged more and more futurists …
Lords of Foresight?
I recently finished reading Walter Keichel’s The Lords of Strategy on the recommendation of Peter Bishop. And like all …
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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Five Books on the Future
A recent APF listserv chat pointed out that member Andrew Curry had been profiled on Five Books -- a terrific interview …
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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Value in an automated intelligent sharing economy
I hope you’ll pardon the mouthful of a title, but it seemed useful to convey a big gulp of ideas for organizing economic …
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A preview of integral organizations
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with integral values at the leading edge of values change today, with …
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Need to spread an idea? Make it Contagious
Just finished Jonah Berger’s Contagious: Why Things Catch On, which was first brought to my attention by Houston …
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Futurevision a welcome addition to the foresight catalog
I am very pleased to recommend Futurevision: Scenarios for the World in 2040 by Richard Watson and Oliver Freeman as an …
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Revisiting the Image of the Future
In preparing for a talk introducing a broad look at the future, I thought of Polak’s Image of the Future, which is the …
Ten Books for Prospective Futurists
If you had to suggest ten books that a prospective futurist should read – starting from a tabula rasa (limited or no …
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Thinking about Predictive Analytics
My interest in predictive analytics was first piqued by a presentation by Garry Golden at the 2008 APF Gathering on Big …
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“Teaching about the Future” wins the APF Most Significant Futures Works Award
Teaching about the Future was awarded first prize in the “methodology and practice” category in this year’s Association …
A few thoughts on Infinite Progress
A colleague referred me to Byron Reese, the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End …
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“Moments of Impact” Makes an Impact
It’s always such fun to see someone you know come out with a book that you really like! Indeed, I recently received a …
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APF Most Significant Futures Work Nomination: Think Like a Futurist
I am very pleased to have nominated “Think Like a Futurist” by Cecily Sommers for an APF Most Significant Futures Work …
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Revisiting Last and First Men and Starmaker, Part 2
Our protagonist from First & Last Men moves on to the cosmos, travelling to other solar systems and worlds, in …
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Revisiting Last and First Men and Starmaker, Part 1
I’ve been on kick of re-reading “futures classics,” having gone through Future Shock and Panarchy (well, maybe that’s …
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Thinking about the Future….soon to be re-stocked
So sorry if you've gone to Amazon and seen Thinking about the Future selling for over $2,011.22. Of course, feel free to …
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Great review of Teaching about the Future
Here's a great review of Teaching about the Future. It comes from Jay Gary of the Regent University Strategic Foresight …
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