Toward Real Human Futures and Foresight
At the time of this writing, Russia has just invaded Ukraine, protesters have just left a 3-week occupation of the
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covid-19
Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can
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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects provide a perfect example of similarity and difference in strategy, outcome, and impact. Are
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The Future of Futures Work?
While this title is ridiculous, the practice of futures work is not and is more important than ever to support
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Taking My Own Innovation Medicine (Why It Took Me 10 Years To Produce a Podcast): Part 1
Producing a podcast in 2011 was novel; not in 2021 – although the lessons learned from 10 years of trying
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What is Sensemaking? Part 2: Practice
Sensemaking practice is social, interactive, and focused on strategies to work through what we think, know, and imagine. In our
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Design For How We See Ourselves
Identity shapes design of products and services so why ignore it when we are designing for humans lives? Who we
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Entangled Knots and Complexity
The idea of entanglements is central to understanding complexity in systems and the knots that they generate The idea of
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Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Our understanding of situations are co-constructed and that means our future is, too. Shaping our future — at least one
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System Entanglements and Change
‘New beginnings’ is a phrase that only works when both words are true and the systems around them support their
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