Vignette – how to on foresight – people knowledge central
Posted in: Foresight Tags: decision-making, how to, human, Humanity, organization, people, psychology, sociocultural, sociology, strategy, sustainability, understanding
MAKE THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT CENTRAL Make the human context central to any strategic foresight activity. Do not be overly enamored with industry analysis, technology, or business trends and forget or overlook the role of people. Many activities produce impressive reams of data but haven’t thought through how the people affected would react or respond in [...]
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 [...]
Creativity and spirituality
Posted in: Innovation, Personal Tags: Creativity, decision-making, emergent, paradox
Fascinated by paradoxes Of late I have read a few books touching on creativity and on spirituality. The latest two are by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Creativity” and Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”. The former talks about creativity as something that emerges when critical conditions have been met. The three key ones [...]
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