One of our folks recently shared around an HBR.org article entitled,"Four Keys to Thinking About the Future." Needless to say, we were all a bit underwhelmed by the advice in the article.
- Enhance your power of observation
- Appreciate the value of being (a little) asocial
- Study history
- Learn to deal with ambiguity
I think we were just a tad disappointed to find this (digitally) printed under the HBR banner, since it felt vague and light enough to feel futures-self-helpy. We also pulled up the recent post I wrote on "
5 things you can do to think like a futurist" (admittedly with just a little trepidation, wanting to make sure that what I had wrote initially as a very light and quick post didn't turn out to be exactly what the HBR.org post was). Fortunately, it wasn't.
To recap, 5 things you can do:
- Scan
- Diversify your sources
- See the world systemically
- Swing both ways
- Be humble
But, since we are in the midst of prepping all of the updated
foresight training modules for 2014, it's probably as good a time as ever to put a little thought into how we would replace the "4 keys" from the HBR.org article with a more sophisticated and rigorous set of guidelines for
thinking about the futures.
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