F-Suites for C-Suites: 4 Futures Thinking Toolkits To Help C-Suite Leaders Thrive in a World of Change

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emergent by design

Imagine your mind as a construct – a series of models, assumptions, biases, values, beliefs, memories, past hurts and joys, experiences, expectations, and blind spots.

It’s running a real-time simulation of the world 24/7, creating stories, scenarios, predictions of what could happen next and how a situation might play out. We run a cost/benefit analysis of the range of choices we could make, and then make decisions based on what we think will lead to our preferred outcomes.

This mind of ours is both a blessing and a curse.

On the one hand, an open, creative and imaginative mind has the capacity to envision futures that at first glance seem impossible or absurd, but on second glance make you go “hmmmmm.” On the other, our minds are fantastic of filling us with fears, envisioning scenarios of what could go wrong, and ultimately paralyzing us from taking any action at all.

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