“You can only roll over x% of your vacation days, so please use them before the end of the year.” How many of us have …
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Thinking about futurists and jobs
Jobs have been on my mind lately. I’ve been looking through job descriptions as part of my work on the APF …
Reflecting on Past APF Gatherings
This year’s Gathering, the Learning Remix, curated by Derek Woodgate with the assistance of the fabulous Maggie, and …
Do not be a “nothing new here” futurist
One of the most vexing comments I hear from fellow listeners to a talk is that there was “nothing new here,” …
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Doing foresight well: cooks and chefs
Was musing with a professional futurist colleague about the state of the foresight field. We observed how the market for …
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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, …
The New Breadwinners: Future of Women in the Workforce
https://youtu.be/jt-6rCtZpHk One reason for dramatic changes in the future of the work is the changing role …
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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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Dictionary of obsolescent concepts: Business Days
“That will be 7-10 business days.” The familiar sinking feeling and the mental calculation of business days follows. …
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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 …
Sharing: Keep the good, leave the hype
It’s kind of fun to reflect on the meme hype cycle -- like Gartner’s Hype Hycle but for ideas rather than technologies. …
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Next Economy: Cutting Some Slack on Sharing
A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names and then added five more that have been suggested for the next economy. …
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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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The End of Work as We Know It
....and I feel fine (if I have the old REM song right). In simpler words, the changes ahead for work could be really …
Exploratory and decision scenarios
Another theme that’s been popping up lately in my work is Pierre Wack’s original notion suggested that exploratory …
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 …
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 …
The World in 2050…. in Ten Minutes
How do you do that? Well, pick a few themes, and it helps to have a good graphic facilitator (Trent Wakenight). I took …
[The idea of] the Singularity is Here
Timing and the future has been coming up a lot in my recent work. [My favorite piece is "seeing in multiple horizons"] …
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Nice media story on the future
I'd like to call out and applaud journalist Chris Parker for pulling together a nice story on the future, published in …
Talented or lucky?
The Sunday NY Times had a piece highlighting a high-profile divorce case involving a CEO that hinges on “active versus …
Real options, scenarios, & sensemaking
Read an interesting piece on combining scenario planning and real options: “Making sense of future uncertainties using …
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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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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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Values and the Holidays: Gray Thursday and Where Do We Go from Here?
I’ve done a few media interviews on the hot topic of shopping’s imminent encroachment into the Thanksgiving holiday. …
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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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