On Participation
Participation is key to Futures Work, yet often resisted by hierarchies valuing efficiency over collaboration. Its value lies in complexity's nature.
Participation is key to Futures Work, yet often resisted by hierarchies valuing efficiency over collaboration. Its value lies in complexity's nature.
On inherited ambition, the pain of unlearning it, and what becomes possible when organizations - and people - start working with their actual nature.
Most organizations do not lack signals, they lack a pathway from signal to decision. This article explores why foresight often becomes theatre or fantasy, and why the real work is earlier relevance, decision readiness, and timing under pressure.
Most strategies assume growth. Few examine how that assumption changes the way decisions are made.
We treat foresight as if it were about time and the yet-to-come. But real impact begins when we realise: foresight is about timing.