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Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth
A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.
In Facing Our Futures , Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.
Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.
In Facing Our Futures , Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.
Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published February 14, 2023
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March 13, 2023
Holistic futures design is presented in this book as a crucial piece for disruptive thinkers. Eight dimensions that address the financial, organizational, regulatory, cultural, environmental, political, technical, and social (FORCEPTS) components of futures thinking are the foundation for this debate. Collectively, these dimensions offer an analytical framework that aids in our ability to grasp, retract, or stabilize beliefs about the future. The book can be useful to all readers with every level of education, especially those who seek a deeper understanding of future possibilities and options. It details the Positive-Dystopian Framework and takes us through its method, exploring how it can be applied to help organizations and governments build more realistic, resilient, and balanced pathways to the future. It reminds us of our role and responsibility in creating and not merely responding to the future.
August 14, 2024
A great book about future thinking and future thinking within organizations: I'm a positivist when it comes to the future. I'm normally looking into the positive effects of technology and I often overlook the negative impact these could have.
The framework presented by Nikolas Badminton is the best tool for future thinking and strategy planning. The positive-dystopian framework creates a more diverse outlook into the future and takes into account that a lot of things may go wrong. It also makes it clear that we need to go away from our quarterly thinking and strategizing and move onwards to a reality where we look 10-20-30-50+ years into the future. To navigate for a more inclusive, sustainable, and humanistic future. We might even do as some of the world's Indigenous people and look 7 generations ahead (525 years).
As I mentioned above. I believe future thinking to be an essential part of the C-Suit and in every boardroom. It's not just for big corporations but also the SMB segment.
For further reading on futurism please take a look at my bookshelf.
The framework presented by Nikolas Badminton is the best tool for future thinking and strategy planning. The positive-dystopian framework creates a more diverse outlook into the future and takes into account that a lot of things may go wrong. It also makes it clear that we need to go away from our quarterly thinking and strategizing and move onwards to a reality where we look 10-20-30-50+ years into the future. To navigate for a more inclusive, sustainable, and humanistic future. We might even do as some of the world's Indigenous people and look 7 generations ahead (525 years).
As I mentioned above. I believe future thinking to be an essential part of the C-Suit and in every boardroom. It's not just for big corporations but also the SMB segment.
For further reading on futurism please take a look at my bookshelf.
June 23, 2023
A magnanimous open ended exploration
Rethinking my whole life now. Also touches on the value of speculative fiction which is a surprise. Mentions the importance of maintaining cognitive, culture-mythical and biological diversity.
Rethinking my whole life now. Also touches on the value of speculative fiction which is a surprise. Mentions the importance of maintaining cognitive, culture-mythical and biological diversity.
November 6, 2023
Practical and factual solutions-based somewhat heavy account that I usually like a lot but didn’t as much because of how relatively dry it seemed. Original and potentially prescient.
Nice and thought-provoking.
Nice and thought-provoking.
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