Taking Advantage
Systems are insidiously difficult to inflect. Innovating them requires a sense of urgency that is often lacking. Strong ones endure because of powerful, self-reinforcing and sustaining mechanisms.
Staying Put
I cancelled my Thanksgiving plans. Recently, I was in New York, and struck by the pace. Having lived there once, and visited many times, I’m not sure why the intensity was more apparent this time around.
Read MoreDesigning Collaboration
Alignment doesn’t come easily. Foresight recently helped a diverse group of very smart and knowledgeable partners achieve a common vision around a multifaceted innovation challenge. We’ve done this before, but over a matter of months, not the 7 weeks this undertaking required. After all the listening, assimilating, questioning, editing, and reflecting back what we heard, what emerged was...
Read More... This summer, Interface, Inc. named Future of Business participant Micaiah as their 2016 Interface Scholar, and Jarami Bond, Sustainability Coordinator, has been mentoring and learning from her, as he wrote about in his quick-read blog post this week.
Read MoreBetraying Comfort Zones
Change becomes personal. Foresight's most valuable asset is trusted relationships. They assuage the fear of risk that accompanies trying something new. They are the lubrication that facilitates innovation. Trust, however, requires...
Read MoreI asked him on an impulse. Foresight's projects are full of complex challenges demanding as much strategic prowess as technical expertise. The best strategies, in my experience, result from a combination of intelligence and perspective. It can be difficult to
Read MoreExpediency vs Perfection
Resisting fear is difficult. Several of Foresight's recent projects have involved facilitating a diverse group, working under a tight deadline, on an ambitious goal. Having a trusted methodology to achieve the outcome is crucial. Knowing when to compromise process for deadline has required a mix of intuitive and intellectual judgement.
Essential Resources
We take the future for granted. As my income has increased, I’ve been striving to support more enterprises whose output I value. Having worked in various parts of the nonprofit sector, I know the importance of the regular monthly donation, or annual season subscription to an organization’s stability. There are experiences and services that are just as worth paying for as nice homes, clothes, and furniture, whether it be an engaging public television show, dynamic dance performance, or deftly constructed news article.