In our work as futurists, it is routine to have our forecasts, findings, and recommendations questioned, particularly …
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Values shifts, innovation, and Integral
Clients are most often curious about values shifts as they seek new understanding about their current or new customers …
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A Sixth Characteristic of the Future Economy: More Local
There are all sorts of indicators suggesting a growing preference for things local. It’s part of the long term values …
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Values Shifts and the Future of Happiness
Came across a nice post The Future of Happiness -- Up or Down? by Deepak Chopra on the Huffington Post site. He starts …
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Millennials at the postmodern and integral transition
The Sunday New York Times had a piece on Millennial Searchers that sought to dispel the myth that they are lazy, …
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Sacred Values and the Values Types
I had the luxury of a free Sunday morning to soak in the New York Times (yes, it should be a necessity!) and came across …
Planning for two economic futures
Just gave a talk on the future of the economy for the NORA summit. NORA (Northeast Oklahoma Regional Alliance) a …
Decline of consumption no longer a weak signal
Thought I'd tie a couple of themes we've been talking about here together: consumption and weak signals. I've had a …
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Tracking weak signals: sharing economy
The talks and presentations on the sharing economy are proliferating and improving. New descriptors are emerging, from …
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Will values shift “in time?”
In a new paper, Shifting Values: Hope and Concern for "Waking Up," I took up the challenge of exploring how changing …
The practical application of values in organizations
Thought I’d share some observations from a wonderful book I just read: Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build …
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Modern Values Bulldozing to the Future
The full spectrum of values seemed to be in play in China in reading the Sunday New York Times. The eye-popping story …
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Glass Houses
A great post by "The Consumerist" on a social-media driven issue on Future of Artificial Dyes in Kraft Macaroni & …
Sharing as another indicator of consuming less
Another post on the trend to consuming less -- I sense a trend here. I came across an excellent piece on the topic by …
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Values shift to consuming less
A key theme of ConsumerShift is that the emergence of postmodern and integral values would lead to less emphasis on …
Future of Values Annotated Bibliography
I'm happy to share the annotated bibliography of key sources for ConsumerShift. It could come in handy for those doing …
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Myths and the Future
Elizabeth Rudd of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) recently shared a link to a nice piece in Strategy …
Does lobbying have a future?
Warning: speculative thought piece ahead. In a workshop a while back, in the course of the discussion, I heard myself …
The role of values in interpreting values
Came across an interesting example of how two analysts/organizations looking at the same data can interpret it quite …
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Postmodern values and women in leadership
Came across an interesting post on "golden skirts" which noted that "the European Union has walked back from a …
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The commodity identity continuum
One of the interesting insights that emerged from Consumershift was the commodity-identity continuum. It suggests that …
Some thoughts on World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values
It’s good news that values are on the agenda of the World Economic Forum, with the formation of a Global Agenda Council …
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Talking about the Future
I recorded a podcast with Thunderstruck Radio last week on a wide range of topics about the future. Host Sancho Jones …
Values and football
I am a big New England Patriots football fan (US football, not soccer). I grew up outside of Boston and have maintained …
Are American values universal?
I came across a blog post by commenting on Congressman Paul Ryan saying that Preventing Gay Marriage Part of America’s …
Values and consumption
Saw a piece “European Automakers Face Diminished Future” and checked it out to see if there might be a “values” …
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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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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