Adaptive Strategy
Growth Is Not a Strategy
Most strategies assume growth. Few examine how that assumption changes the way decisions are made.
Deconstruction
Transformation
The Art of Letting Go Without Falling Apart
Transformation isn’t subtraction. It’s not about taking something out to make space. It’s the reconfiguration itself that changes everything. Letting go isn’t absence, it’s a shift in how things relate so something new can begin.
Futures
The Art of Deconstructing Futures
Helping my child understand quadrilaterals taught me this: real understanding—and real futures—come from breaking things down, questioning assumptions, and rebuilding with meaning and glue.
Futures
The Futures Telescope
The Futures Telescope is a tool for uncovering the blind spots in our vision and the assumptions that guide us.
Adaptive
Of Bridges and Vessels
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the notion and see the beauty in all the “Build bridges, not walls” kind of metaphors. But when it comes to strategy and futures, I’m afraid a bridge isn’t the answer.
Future
The Future is not Female
The Future is Female. Every time and in every context this sentence irritates me. The Future is Female. I perfectly understand the symbolic value of this phrase, as a metaphor for female empowerment. However, describing the future as inherently female overlooks the broader concept of futures being a space of