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It's YOUR Future...: Make it a Good One!
There is a lot you can know about your future. There is a lot you can do about your future. There is a lot you can change about your future to make it the future you want to live. This book shows you in simple, easy steps how to learn about the methods and tools that futurists use (very successfully) in large businesses around the world and how you can use the same methods (even more successfully) in your own life, career, or business. Learn about scenarios and how to use them to explore your future. Learn how to develop a vision of your future for the next ten years and for the rest of your life. Learn how to create strategies and plans to achieve your vision of your future. Learn about the value of a long term perspective, one of the most valuable attributes of leadership. Learn about YOUR future!
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 2, 2010
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About the author
Verne Wheelwright
12 books4 followersVerne Wheelwright, PhD. is an internationally recognized professional in the field of Foresight and Futures Studies. He is the author of It’s YOUR Future…Make It A Good One! (2010) and The Personal Futures Workbook (2008). The workbook is available in several languages as a free download at his web site (www.personalfutures.net). He has published articles about foresight in a number of professional journals and other publications. Wheelwright conducts workshops and addresses audiences in the U.S. and internationally.
Wheelwright is an active member of the Association of Professional Futurists, and a member and Fellow of the World Future Studies Federation. His business and personal travels have taken him to over fifty different countries, offering him insights and an awareness of worldwide cultures and trends. His interests over the years have included skiing, water sports, mountain climbing, scuba diving, sports car racing, flying and writing. As a child, Wheelwright lived in Grangeville, Idaho, moving to Milwaukie, Oregon when he was twelve and living in the Portland area until 1983. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon (business), earned a Masters degree in Futures Studies at the University of Houston Clear Lake and a PhD. at Leeds Metropolitan University. He and his wife now live in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Wheelwright is an active member of the Association of Professional Futurists, and a member and Fellow of the World Future Studies Federation. His business and personal travels have taken him to over fifty different countries, offering him insights and an awareness of worldwide cultures and trends. His interests over the years have included skiing, water sports, mountain climbing, scuba diving, sports car racing, flying and writing. As a child, Wheelwright lived in Grangeville, Idaho, moving to Milwaukie, Oregon when he was twelve and living in the Portland area until 1983. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon (business), earned a Masters degree in Futures Studies at the University of Houston Clear Lake and a PhD. at Leeds Metropolitan University. He and his wife now live in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
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April 19, 2016
It was with great pleasure that I received this book as a gift from the author, someone whom other reviewers have pointed out is not only highly respected in his field, but a darned nice person to boot! While I was already familiar with the work of futurists in relation to business and even social and political spheres, I hadn't seen anyone apply the tools and techniques concerned with anticipating and designing the future to one's personal life before.
Many of us "live" in the future in terms of dreaming or even planning how we would like it to be. But how often do we do this in any systematic, conscious way? Dr. Wheelwright takes the reader step-by-step through a process for avoiding what so many end up having to face: a future that surprises them at best, shocks them at worst. This isn't a book to skim through, but one to work through. It does require the reader to really think about all the areas that make up a fulfilling and meaningful life, at different life stages. The exercises and examples in particular caused me to pay more attention to the external opportunities and threats (the STEEP categories) that might blindside me--were I not aware of them.
It occurred to me while reading that this might make for an interesting, even enjoyable activity for partners to do together. Certainly I'd recommend parents to buy their teenagers a copy and help them work with the various tools so they perhaps feel more in control of their futures.
In this VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world we live in--which is never going to go back to how things used to be (slower paced; less "disruptive")--the greatest gift we can give ourselves and our loved ones is the ability of foresight. To look at the future not as a single inevitable outcome but as a range of possibilities, plausibilities, and probabilities that we, to the extent we pay attention and actively manage our lives, can often choose and direct. Dr. Wheelwright helps make that possible. For which I am very grateful.
Many of us "live" in the future in terms of dreaming or even planning how we would like it to be. But how often do we do this in any systematic, conscious way? Dr. Wheelwright takes the reader step-by-step through a process for avoiding what so many end up having to face: a future that surprises them at best, shocks them at worst. This isn't a book to skim through, but one to work through. It does require the reader to really think about all the areas that make up a fulfilling and meaningful life, at different life stages. The exercises and examples in particular caused me to pay more attention to the external opportunities and threats (the STEEP categories) that might blindside me--were I not aware of them.
It occurred to me while reading that this might make for an interesting, even enjoyable activity for partners to do together. Certainly I'd recommend parents to buy their teenagers a copy and help them work with the various tools so they perhaps feel more in control of their futures.
In this VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world we live in--which is never going to go back to how things used to be (slower paced; less "disruptive")--the greatest gift we can give ourselves and our loved ones is the ability of foresight. To look at the future not as a single inevitable outcome but as a range of possibilities, plausibilities, and probabilities that we, to the extent we pay attention and actively manage our lives, can often choose and direct. Dr. Wheelwright helps make that possible. For which I am very grateful.
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