Vignette – how to on foresight – fertile ground
SHIFT ATTITUDES TOWARDS RECEPTIVENESS TO CHANGE George Bernard Shaw said, “You see things and say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” It is important to cultivate receptiveness to the new: “Let’s try and understand this better.” The new disturbs existing comfort zones and positions and as a consequence [...]
Enterprise 2.0 is about changing behaviours
Posted in: Innovation Tags: bbc, change, collaboration, Connecting, human, knowledge, marilyn ferguson, organization, social networking, time
At the Enterprise 2.0 Future Exploration….. One fundamental change will be in the day to day way in which people in the company work. Euan Semple a former leader in BBC on knowledge management spoke of the difficulty to counter some of the arguments against leveraging the social networking and collaboration tools like wikis, blogs [...]
AusForesight2007
Posted in: Foresight Tags: ausforesight2007, autonomous, behaviour, change, collaboration, evan thompson, Foresight, francisco varela, Future, futurist, habit, human, integral, jan lee martin, ken wilber, meaning making, naomi klein, pattern recognition, peter bishop, peter hayward, richard slaughter, serafino de simone, sohail inayatullah, taboo
Three days in the lives of futurists – together AusForesight2007 is now part of history and memories. We came together in a national event with one tireless international guest Peter Bishop to reflect, react and respond. We reflected on the meaning of futures in our lives and in the world. We reacted to what we [...]
Human sillyness
Nothing changes while the way in which we express humanity changes In French there is a saying: “Plus ça change plus c’est la même chose”. The more things change the more they are the same. We can sometimes be extremely contradictory between our stated intent and our behavior. I’ve got two examples about this human [...]
The pendulum swing
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Innovation Tags: behaviour, change, Continuity, Future, human, Prosapience
We are a very excitable lot, us humans. When we come up with something new we get all gung ho about its potential and impact. Once we’ve established that it is not going to happen quite so fast then we no longer notice the changes happening around us. Is that because we became rather blaze [...]
Competing in a Connected World
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Foresight, Innovation, Life Tags: change, competition, Connecting, Continuity, organization, pathways, ride waves, timely technology
Do or die An enterprise can consider a few alternative pathways as to how they respond to the technology induced changes. The enterprise can decide to create waves by defining their own way to leverage the technologies. Another possibility is to ride the waves others have created. Or the enterprise can crash some waves. The [...]
….more on changing names….
Posted in: Personal Tags: change, identity, personal journey, what's in a name
It is done Now I have a new passport arriving from France with my maiden name, which was already there anyway, but the passport needed to be redone, getting in to the biometrics era. I have received my name change document from the Australian births deaths and marriages office and I just got a letter [...]
Readopting the name I was born with = Jaurola
Posted in: Personal Tags: change, identity, personal journey, phonetics, what's in a name
After several years of dreading the effort, I am now taking the plunge….. There are two nice ways to pronounce my name Jaurola….. the French and the Finnish way. First is something like ‘Jorola’ [French way] or ‘Yaurola’ [Finnish], emphasis on first syllable. Gosh I started to try and do this in phonetic language – [...]
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