Better Thinking Employees
Problems can be overwhelming for organizational leaders and even more overwhelming for the employees. Organizational leaders have the benefit of having a bird’s eye view of the systems that contribute…
Principles of System Thinking
To build an effective system can be challenging. There are a great number of details that need to be thought through and considered in order to achieve exactly what is…
Go Beyond Anecdotes
Anecdotal answers pervade the landscape of leadership. A trip to the local bookstore will reveal rows and rows of leadership development books based on someone’s experiential success they are sure…
International Futures Model of Forecasting
The International Futures model for global forecasting (IFs) is a powerful tool for anyone interested in having a clear understanding of the future in order to plan, prepare, and intentionally…
Tell Me a Story About the Future
Stories capture the attention of people and propel them to a time and place outside of their reality. Each and every weekend people flock to their local theater in order…
Foresight Service to the Village
We are all a part of the global village we live in. For most of the world, gone are the days of isolation from the corners of the planet where…
Trap of Sensationalism
The temptation for every individual is to be caught in the present moment that demands our attention. Particularly in a growing environment where shock value is the manipulating tool of…
It’s Alive, It’s Alive
The famous line “It’s alive, it’s alive” comes from the familiar story of Frankenstein, a monster made of random parts and brought to life through a charge of electricity. Just as…
Coffee Quickly Please
Through the course of the day, every individual is impacted by an array of systems that either make life simpler, or more complicated. The determination is made in the quality…
Hope for Global Futures
The greatness of mankind is often quantified human’s ability to transcend known realities through technological discovery or exploration. This is an unfortunate narrowing of the potential greatness mankind is capable…