On Participation
Participation is key to Futures Work, yet often resisted by hierarchies valuing efficiency over collaboration. Its value lies in complexity's nature.
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Before adaptation comes anticipation
The real shift isn’t from business as usual to experimentation, but from reaction to anticipation. This is the frontier between surviving and evolving.
When 5 Years Are Not Enough
Most companies trust the rhythm of five-year plans and annual budgets, but without governance of superposed futures, they risk pacing the same cage while calling it strategy.
On futures we mistake for change
When the present grows too heavy to move, organizations often reach for the same answer they always reach for, the promise of more control. The reflex is almost automatic. Prutures.
Too Much to Move.
We often imagine change as a clean swap of parts, one process out, another in, and we keep telling ourselves that with enough focus and discipline the machine will run better.