{"id":85865,"date":"2023-03-03T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85865"},"modified":"2023-03-05T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:29:05","slug":"leaders-who-practice-foresight-stay-ahead-of-the-innovation-curve-tfsx-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/03\/leaders-who-practice-foresight-stay-ahead-of-the-innovation-curve-tfsx-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders who practice foresight stay ahead of the innovation curve [tfsx.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tfsx.com\/2023\/02\/leaders-who-practice-foresight-stay-ahead-of-the-innovation-curve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Leaders who practice foresight stay ahead of the innovation curve<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from tfsx.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to famed futurist Richard Slaughter, foresight (also known as futures thinking or futuring) is \u201cthe ability to create and maintain a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view, and to use the insights arising in useful organizational ways.\u201d<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In other words, foresight is a way to examine the paths the future might take, using qualitative and quantitative metrics, and then use the insights gained from this analysis to navigate our uncertain and changing world with purpose.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cThe art and science of futuring is fast becoming a necessary skill, where we read signals, see trends and ruthlessly test our own assumptions\u2026Like the ability to make a budget or think critically, it\u2019s a skill that anyone who has to make long-range decisions should, and can, acquire.\u201d<sup>3<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The development of these futuring skills needs to begin in K-12 and continue into vocational programs as well as in college.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2023\/02\/strategic-intelligence-why-foresight-key-future-readiness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The future isn\u2019t what it used to be: Here&#8217;s how strategic foresight can help<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from weforum.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Three-quarters (75%) of organizations are not prepared for the pace of change in and around their industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Across sectors, we all need to rethink how we operate to both survive and thrive in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Foresight can help individuals and organizations be more future prepared, innovative and agile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56848 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExponentialPaceOfChange-DanielChristianSep2016.jpg\" alt=\"The exponential pace of change\" width=\"595\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExponentialPaceOfChange-DanielChristianSep2016.jpg 595w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ExponentialPaceOfChange-DanielChristianSep2016-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders who practice foresight stay ahead of the innovation curve &#8212; from tfsx.com Excerpt (emphasis DSC): According to famed futurist Richard Slaughter, foresight (also known as futures thinking or futuring) is \u201cthe ability to create and maintain a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view, and to use the insights arising in useful organizational ways.\u201d2\u00a0In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,61,37,180,74,431,44,855,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-future","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-organizational-change","category-pace-of-change","category-skills","category-strategy","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85865"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85873,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85865\/revisions\/85873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}